台東 #1!!!!
好久不見!
Just here to say that months of gaslighting myself has been successful!!!! I must say I spent the first month or two here lowkey miserable. But I kept saying things like 台東 (Taitung) #1! I love living here! Wouldn't want to be anywhere else!
And now I highkey believe it! Taiwan is small enough that I could in theory travel to party every weekend. But I don't even want that anymore. It's nice to spend Friday nights resting, playing games with friends, or watching movies / shows! There's never pressure to go out or FOMO bc there's nothing to go out to!
After years of saying I'm focusing on myself, I kind of actually am (bc there's no option). Especially with starting 75 hard with @yourebasicbecause, I go to the gym almost every day, I don't drink so there's less incentive to go clubbing, I slowly move through completing my books (Finished Al Final Mueren los Dos recently and now reading O Ego é seu inimigo), and my time surfing the Apps TM have dwindled bc there's no one on them within 80 km!
I still can travel to other parts of the country pretty easily ($20-$40 and 2-4 hours on a train to get anywhere you need to go), and I have weekend trips lined up. But I honestly just like exploring TT more. No matter where I am in the "city" I can always turn 360 degrees and see a mountain at some point, which I think is pretty nice. And its one of the few places in Taiwan where you'll never see a layer of smog in the air (travelling to Tainan for a day was crazy bc I was thinking why does the air look like that....)
Nothing but time to focus on what I want to prioritize rn, and I think thats maybe what I need. Giving me material for me to spend the rest of my life annoying people with stories of how my time "abroad" changed my life.
















