Is Vienna Worth the Hype?
Is Vienna Worth the Hype?

Is Vienna Worth the Hype?

It has been now almost three months that I have moved to my dream city. And to be honest, it has already exceeded my expectations. Every day I wake up and am grateful to be living in such a beautiful and lively city. Even though most of the time I have spent settling in or working, I still manage to find small moments to enjoy.

One big reason I’m quite happy in Vienna is because I finally moved into my own space. I still have roommates, but I have my own room and can do whatever I want with it. And of course, letting my creativity loose has been amazing. The second hand market in Vienna is popping, so I have been picking up lots of free and low-cost things around Vienna. So far I have collected a new table, shelf, crystal bowl, jewellery holder and random accessories for under 10€.

This feeling of making this house a home has been so satisfying. All I have left to do is put up my paintings, tapestries and fairy lights on the wall, and I’m set.

Work has also been really good. In fact, I managed to find enough private students to cover all of my costs. I still work at the Hard Rock Café, but that income is for saving and travelling. In fact, I’m doing really well there. I got 1st place in one of our selling competitions, and that made me feel very valued.

Since Vienna is so central, I’ve already had so many friends visit, and so many more and family are coming this summer. Two of my cousins visited, and some other friends.

This is the first summer I’m not really planning to travel myself, just small trips around Austria, so it will be nice to have visitors.

Like I mentioned in my last blog, I am singing in the Philharmonic choir, and we had our first concert last weekend! I also partook in a small ensemble solo, which you can watch here.

Because of all of these amazing things happening in my life, my mental health has improved immensely. In general, I was doing ok, but I have been in therapy for 5 years now. My most recent therapist started with me a few months ago, and we agreed to start CBT by the time I get settled in Vienna. Until then, she was helping me through talk-therapy of my weekly issues. But, last week, I finally felt settled in my new home, and was ready to start the “real” therapy. After discussing it for a few minutes, we both realized that actually most of the problems I had when I came to her have completely disappeared.

I honestly feel the happiest I have ever been, I feel so satisfied in life, and I really don’t need anything else to live a fulfilled life. This made me start to think that our environment really creates our thoughts, no matter our predisposition. I wrote a lot about this in my Book Series, which you can read here. It’s really crazy to me that just being in a place I want to be, and living the life I want to live, all my problems disappear.

Something that keeps my motivated is seeing my vision board every morning, to which I add every once in a while.

I will end this little update with a link to my video regarding how my habits have been going these past few months. Hopefully you can learn something from there as well.

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