Do you think that our environments shape us and our entire being? I do believe so. And here is why.

As someone who spent a good part of her life traveling and constantly changing environments, I can confirm that certain environments will either elevate you or drown you. Or at least try to. I can only share my experience because I know how elevated I felt once I moved from my Motherland to abroad. It’s like my energy shifted; my DNA was decoded. I suddenly felt like I can achieve anything, I felt like I can finally breathe, I felt…free. And I never stopped looking for that feeling again.

Let’s take a work environment as an example. If your work environment aka people, make you feel seen and appreciated, naturally you will feel more eager to go to your workplace, to work there and spend more time. Even if you are not happy with the job itself. Whereas if the environment is not supportive or it’s lowkey non-supportive, you will feel unwelcomed, unappreciated and not seen. It will immediately make you want to leave and it will immediately affect your inner balance. These things should not be taken lightly. We usually brush them off, but if you take into consideration that we spend a lot of time at our workplace, environment is everything.

Which brings me to something that really affected my perspective today as I read replies to anonymous questions one influencer posted and people complained to her about various things: feeling trapped in marriages, workplaces, feeling depressed. And she asked the most important question Who is forbidding you to leave? And the highlight of my day: I like to imagine myself as a 90-year-old lady and I always ask her is this situation something that would result in regrets of not doing something I wanted to do, something that made me feel free? And I have been making my life decision based on some very old lady I might not become one day, and also because I’m going to die with my life choices, society will not be there.

So, maybe we should all consult that old lady in our imagination and maybe switch things up a bit? Because in 10, 15 years we will look back and say Jeez, why did I stay there for so long when I was *clearly* unhappy? I think we all need to bring our courage back. Because nobody made things possible while complaining. Because complaining breeds more complaining and courage breeds more courage.

Are we ready for that leap of faith?