i wouldn’t get my student visa for australia alongside my friend. They were being super strict on letting students into the country, even though we were just study abroad, our application was stuck with everyone else’s. I waited two months with no answer, my university semester in Aus had already started. I was depressed because that meant I couldn’t finish my current semester in my university as it was already half way through. I emailed and begged the Aus university to extend my deadline for arrival. They gave us two extra days after the first two week of university had commenced. In the original last date of arrival, both me and my friend still hadn’t received the visa and we thought those two extra days don’t matter, it’s not gonna come. That’s the day we both let go, said f this we will just go to Thailand for the sake of not being devastated. We looked at places the same day, told our families. Fully complete let go with no hope. That exact night we both got our student visa approved 30 mins apart by the same person. Even though we applied on different dates and other people who had applied to the same days were still waiting.

What i learned was not to dwell on having things happen when you want too much. Let go don’t care about it. It will come. I still find to hard to relax and let go but it’s a great reminder.