
…, the only way to solve these problems is to embrace the present moment and accept whatever happens. “You need to find inner peace with yourself and stop running from problems,” said my meditation teacher, “no matter where you go, Europe, Africa, Asia or anywhere else, your problems will follow.”
There’s something weird about staying in your hometown. It severely limits the definitions you accept for what makes you successful. Oddly, most of the hometown definitions of success have nothing to do with happiness. They have to do with becoming what everyone in your past expects or desires given who you used to be. It’s a sort of tether to a past self that no longer exists.