In the process of my introspection, and re-reading some of my older posts on living in Copenhagen, I have come to the realisation that I might have been overly critical whilst being in a depressive state.
So how do I find Copenhagen now after three years? Well, I am far happier than I have been here in a while. I am actually starting to enjoy my life in Copenhagen. I am exploring, I am experiencing and I am looking at everything with different eyes. This, I think is partly due to having tackled a long period of depression. Accepting, to an extent changes in my life situation and learning slowly what truly gives me pleasure in life.
Copenhagen, I find now, just like any other city, has it's annoyances and things I do not particularly care for. But these are really so small and insignificant that I would readily stay. Though I have not decided that just yet, I would say I am weighing more on the side of conceiving this as home. And why not.
One thing I did stop doing was converting everything to Euro's and comparing against the equivalent in the Netherlands. Once I did that and accepted the cost and the fact that we get paid to offset that cost, then I found a whole new appreciation for things I did. Be that dinner, drinks, Tivoli or going for a coffee. I think for anyone moving here that would be one of my foremost pieces of advice - do not compare the pricing to your home country!
I am really hoping that now with a new mindset and new ideas of exploration that this blog will finally take off like I had originally intended it to.
Hopefully it will not only provide information but also be a journal of my life and thoughts as I move into the next decade and next half century of my life. Yes, I turned 50 in late 2019 :-)
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