Italy It is my first trip to Europe. I am going to Italy. I owed it to my younger self as a teenager who watched too much Hollywood films and notably the cliché Eat Pray Love. My teenage whim of becoming a chef and architect probably were also influenced by the Italian inspiration from the movies. Today’s me as a young working adult, whose work not related to any form of art and cuisine, has been stuck at home since covid, no opportunities for long travels, I have been quite accustomed to the boring lifestyle, eating the same food, watching movies that has basically the same plots, same anxiety and trauma from toxic job. As an adult who “settled” in life, I still have ambitions, but not as wild as my teenager self. If I lost
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