“Big Thing Starts Small”

“Increase sense of meaning, to remind ourselves that this is what is real, this is what life is actually all about.” — Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

For the years I’ve been traveled to different places. I decided to leave a safe ship because of dreams and a restless heart. Since I was fourteen, my family supported my decision to study aboard in the US.

Why? Because I am young, while there is still a lot of room for trial and error, I hope to leave some of my marks in this diverse world. Luckily, I met and live with the warmest host family during my high school in Milwaukee. During that time, I read bedtime stories for three little girls, went camping with my host family to see the most beautiful stars, and spent memorable thanksgiving and Christmas holidays with their big family. This experience is more precious than what I learned in high school.

Before I graduated from college with Economic Bachelor Degree, I always have a vain hope that luck can help me to accelerate the pace of chasing my dreams. I was wrong. Working in an investment bank is not the life that I expected. The work-life I expected is to combine my creative sparkle and art sense into my mathematical thinking.

What is my dream? The answer only becomes clear and specific after countless attempts. I had various internship experiences across a wide range of brands, from photography studio, Fin-tech, investment bank, till today, a marketing agency. I’ve had the great fortune to work on some truly inspiring projects while meeting many influential and creative individuals along the way.

Competing with myself when I’m young is a risky pursuit.

We live in a world that loves to compare and measure success based on the accomplishments of others. Frankly speaking, sometimes things could go wrong and we have to live with it.

The importance is to recognize.

I made another important decision in my life — which is studying in Marketing Analytics at New York University. The importance of choose where to live is what kind of life to live.

In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. — Cities and Ambition — Paul Graham

New York — the city connives and encourages everyone to be who they are, with a rare degree of tolerance and indifference. Here, no one tells you what you should do, no one forbids you from doing anything, and no one even CARES what you’re doing. There is no concept of age, and there are plenty of examples of people in their 50s, 60s, and even 70s and 80s who are still passionately pursuing the life they want.

To be the best vision of myself, I’m preparing anytime for the next challenge. Writing blogs helps me to take a deep breath in this busy city, and I started to question myself: What’s the next stop? — maybe a place closer to my dream.

Thanks to everyone