I recently came across a post on hive about national envy as the title. It was a bit of a rant against borders and visas and looking for a better life outside of their current location(I'll get into that subject at a different post unrelated to this). But not just somewhere else that is close but an entire different region far far far away from the original place.
And I get it.
He, like many others, want a different life, but what people like this are actually after is something entirely different. What they are really chasing is a version of life they think only exists somewhere else. A forest in Canada. Mountains in the distance. Somewhere quiet. Space. Freedom.
A lot of that feeling is just realizing too late that you didn’t build your life intentionally. So now it feels like you just need a completely different location to fix it.
What most people don't seem to understand, is that they bring with them the same patterns that made them feel that way.then apply those same patterns and end up blaming something outside of themselves for the consequences that got them to move in the first place.
It usually plays out something like this:
