Leaving America for Europe

I will be leaving America, and living with Europe.

I don’t know when…I don’t know how exactly the transition will happen. But it will happen.

Living in America has been like a bad marriage. I tried to make it work, I really did. But America doesn’t love me. America has never treated me well. In fact, America has treated me rather poorly, with immense disrespect.

Indeed, it is very much like a bad marriage. Only it took me a long time to realize that America was the problem, not me. I tried to make it work. I tried so many paths, so many places, so many approaches. Yet nothing worked. America is a place in name only. It has never held the opportunities promised, it has never given me the fruits of my labor, it has never given me anything but sorrow.

For years I thought it was me. And I thought there was no choice. That’s just the way that it is. And so I fell into quiet despair.

And then I met Europe. Ah yes – Europe! Europe today is what America should have been. Europe is smart, progressive, vibrant. The people there are much smarter, they are much more evolved. And above all – they are much more free.

Who would have guessed that America is no longer the land of the free? And that Germany, of all places, is much more free and open than anyplace here? Times have changed.

Germany is the new America. Europe as a whole – from England to Romania – is the New World. There is opportunity there. The people have freedom there. A person can actually breathe, live, and be themselves there.

Yes – I will be leaving America for Europe.

My entire life in America has been like a bad marriage. For many years I believed America was good, and there were possibilities. Then it turned out there were no possibilities for me. I thought it was just me – what was I doing wrong – and I would try different approaches. But again, like a bad marriage, it was not me – it was my “partner”. My “partner” – my country – was the abusive one, the limiting one. She confined me, constrained me, limited me, abused me, and above all very much restricted my freedoms.

I thought this was the way of life, and there was no other options. Then I met the Europeans. Oh yes – the people of Europe are wonderful and glorious. They have it all!

 

Every person I meet or talk to in Europe always comes across as the same. This includes people I communicate with on-line over the miles who still live there. It includes visitors who are the US for a short time. It includes those Europeans who have chosen to relocate here.

Always the same. Every persons is always much more open, much more evolved, much more sensible and smart, and above all enjoys the same pleasures that I do.

Every television show, every personal home video. It is always the same. There is no doubt – the culture in Europe is grand and glorious. They have freedom. They have opportunity.

Thus finally – finally – I see people who desire the same things I do! Finally I see people who enjoy the same things I do. And they are able to do these things so openly and freely.

Oh yes – I did not know such things were possible. I did not know such people existed, and such environments existed.

Growing up in this “bad marriage” with America for so long, I did not know that other options existed – on the other side of the ocean.

You might say I finally found love. You might say I finally know what true love is. You might say that I finally found a nation which loved its people back – and not just one nation, but several nations in the region.

Oh yes – I will be leaving America for Europe. I don’t know how, I don’t know when, but I will. I only wish that I knew about the differences between Europe and America sooner.

I believe only in Europe will I find true and lasting happiness.

In particular, I believe the nations of Germany, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine will have what I desire.

Germany in particular is the center of all things great. Germany is the land of Eden, the utopia, the place where all people are happy and free. Germany will be the place where I will find ultimate happiness. The other nearby nations also have similar pleasures, whether I stay there full time or just visit friends periodically.

Again and again I say: I will be leaving America for Europe, particularly Germany, Slovakia, and Romania. The people, the culture, is much better – so much more free, much more sensible. I believe I will find my true and lasting happiness when get to live there, lecture there, and have lots of fun there, full time…all the time.