Talking seagulls

I haven’t left my country yet, but I’ve already moved to a new city to take a job that will make it easier to move forward with my plan. I work a lot, live in a hotel with basic amenities, and my life is generally much tougher than before, but I know I’m on the right path. I’m making sacrifices now to invest in my future.

This new city where I’m living temporarily is on the coast, and it’s come with a surprise: it’s swarming with seagulls. They’re everywhere, they’re huge (much bigger than any I’d seen before), and they’re incredibly noisy.

I sleep with earplugs, and their constant squawking still wakes me up in the morning before my alarm, not stopping until night. My hotel is near the pier, and apparently, there are lots of nests around here, so they’re even more concentrated in this area. But when I talk to locals, they say everyone in the city is fed up with them. It’s honestly intense. I suppose I’ll get used to it eventually, but for now, it’s exhausting.

If someone had told me a week ago that talking seagulls would be on my list of daily problems, I’d have thought it was a joke. And yet, here I am, writing about them. No matter how well I’ve planned to achieve my life goals, I never could’ve predicted this.

I’m sure more surprises, crazy problems, and situations that force me to adapt to a new reality or find new solutions are waiting for me. Because stepping out of your comfort zone means not only facing the tension of the unfamiliar but also the tension of the unpredictable. My goal is to live permanently outside my comfort zone—or better yet, to make my comfort zone the space beyond it. So, I need to add to my to-do list the mental work of building a new mindset to succeed in my new life.