Opportunities can be interesting yet I never thought how challenging an opportunity may actually be. There have been many opportunities in my life including moving multiple times and these were tough yet nothing like what has happened lately.
I moved states about 3 years ago and I have moved a few times whilst being here. One was pretty bad yet with the help of my most amazing friends I found accommodation.
I moved into a a bedroom out in the suburbs away from the beach and not having a car has made it hard. I only got to the beach a few times whilst I lived out here because I isolate myself more and more. I didn’t even what to leave the house I was living in.
These are some photos of the beaches I went to whilst I was here.
Living here was good to start with although I was doing all the housework including taking out the garbage bins. Over time I became resentful which didn’t help my mental health and made the isolation easier.
Then the person in the bedroom next to me started to make a lot of noise including slamming doors, windows and just making a lot of noise. I thought it might be just a situation that would stop and unfortunately it didn’t and actually got worse. No need to go into details about that.
I let the real estate know what was happening and that is when things turned even nastier. It was not long after and I got a vacate notice. I was shocked as I had been living here for over a year before this happened.
I felt okay as I thought I would find a room or maybe even a studio easily. Well things had changed in the time that I lived here and it was so hard as most places were outside of my budget and needing bond as well as two weeks rent before moving in made it impossible.
I started panicking and my anxiety became so bad that most nights I was lucky to get 3 hours sleep. This made it hard to function and find any help that I could get. The end result of this is that I got no help from the places I asked and it was a matter of feeling that I was going to be homeless as I had not enough money to move into a place.
This was where I was at my lowest and I decided to put a post out on social media asking for help. I felt so embarrassed because I had never been in this situation. The support was amazing and I ended up getting offers from two different friends in two different states that I could stay with them.
This was tough as I really thought that I wanted to live up here and yet the experience certainly hasn’t been what I expected. Because of this it made the decision a little easy even though the embarrassment is still there and I am moving in with one of my friends until I am settled somewhere. I will be looking for work whilst still working on my business which has become totally online. I even had an idea pop into my head that feels really good and it will be easy for me to create.
That is my adventure up until now and tomorrow I will talk about decluttering down to two suitcase from living in a room.
Till then
Darleen
