How I would like to live
Life in the city, in my hometown, in Bratislava. It’s March, and it has already been half a year since I decided to stay in Slovakia for a while, to calm down here and find out whether I would like to, or could, live here. Many people of course ask me why I came back, but unfortunately my life in the Netherlands was no longer fulfilling me — even though I was paid better there, had amazing friends, and the possibilities for activities and experiences were simply much bigger. What I originally went there for (a relationship) no longer existed (at least not in the form it had during the first two years), and so I felt that I was only suffering and pushing something that had already died — that dream of a life I had and wanted to build. Before I came back to Slovakia, I spent two months in Portugal, because deep inside I believed that I wanted to live there. At that time I didn’t realize it, but somehow it wasn’t working — I didn’t know why, but I couldn’t create a life for myself t...
