Tuesday.

Here we are… Month #9 at SEA. I can’t believe I haven’t given up yet, lol.

Yet here I am, back in Bangkok, after conveniently deciding to miss my flight yesterday. You see, I have an interesting problem. I have an apartment here, but I do not have an apartment in Hong Kong. Thank you, Chinese New Year!

This is some kind of weird rite of passage out here. How do you handle being homeless and forced to constantly move between countries on a moment’s notice? Turns out I’m handling it rather well. Or at least, I’m starting to get the hang of how it all works out here.

My year of learning continues. How do I handle adversity out here in the big, bad world? All I can say is that it takes time and experience. Bad job at sketchy TEFL center, nonstop visa paperwork, riding motorcycles through the street, taking death-defying taxi cab rides, getting robbed multiple times in various ways, casual encounters with gangsters, pimps, and spies, surviving the weirdo hippie cult vibes of Bali, watching bar fights in Bangkok, and trying to make it in Hong Kong despite all of the odds.

Yeah, I think I’m doing all right. Better than anyone expected, I think. Better than I expected. Thank god I spent the entire pandemic reading all of the posts in the digital nomad groups on Facebook and subs on Reddit. I was semi-prepared for this. I was definitely not as prepared as I could have been, but I also didn’t know what to expect when I signed up to travel around the world.

Sure, you can look at pictures on Pinterest and Instagram all day, but the reality on the ground is so much different. I couldn’t even really conceive of a place like Bali until I actually got there. What I had in mind definitely did not match up with reality. And that is only one example…

Plans for Month #9? Be the rich man. We’re going full-on delusional with the Law of Attraction. Vision board made. Resume updated. Mindset clear. I know exactly what I want at this point in time. The universe will provide it to me… somehow.

Still sitting on my new manuscript. I kind of know what I want to do with it, but I also know I need to sit on it a bit longer. Let’s finish out my year abroad before I really commit to anything. I just know I have to crunch what is essentially the first half of the book into the first quarter. So yeah, definitely wait out this year a little bit. Make the vision happen. Make the money. Get the housing situation sorted out. Then return to the book.

Everything is going to be okay. It’s the Year of the Red Fire Horse. This is a lucky year, indeed! I know I can make it work if I hold on a little bit longer.

Off we go now. There is much work to be done today…