Some place kill you and some other places bring you back to life...

These days I keep hearing this phrase from friends "it's time to move on." and when I ask them what signs they received to know it is about time, the answer is usually "I just feel stuck in a place/life where I don't belong anymore."

We all get that feeling of stuckness every once in a while. It usually starts with a sense of heaviness, lack of excitement, sheer boredom, and a lot of daydreaming; only to end with a complete sense of burnout that even the weekend retreat to the beach can't cure. Some people can live in that state for years while others can't stand the faintest smell of it.

Well, I'm one of those people who can take anything in life but the feeling of being stuck in life. I've always saw the world as big and wide with so many possibilities to endure living in a pit where I don't belong. Yet, moving on isn't always that easy. It takes a hell of planning, knocking all the doors, coping with uncertainties, and persistence. Besides, it's not always easy to determine whether the stuckness is internal or external (yup, maybe it's the inside that needs to change baby!)

One thing that have always helped me to make decision when I feel stuck is to stay still, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, and one time in my life I had to stay still for a year to receive some signs (that was in 2015 when I took a year off from work and was ready, come what may.) Stillness is the opposite of overthinking or over planning that may confuse your already overburdened mind.

Just make sure that you are ready to receive whatever signs with an open heart and mind. Yes, we all question and test our decisions, yet the apparently insane decisions have often proved to be the life changing ones.

Cheers to moving on!