'Why Did No One Tell Me That Life Is So Limited?'

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I've been reluctant to write to you because my problems are so all-consuming and yet so non-tangible, and I don't even know if I have the words for them. I'm 24, from London, and I graduated from university last summer. I was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to spend the last year of university on exchange in Hong Kong, which was a really beautiful and life-changing experience, and I miss it every day. I grew up in an immigrant family without much money and with major emotional issues. My family keeps big secrets and doesn't communicate healthily and I feel stifled and stagnant at home, but I moved back after graduation to save some money for a master's that I'll be starting in September. In Hong Kong, life felt limitless. I was being taught by incredible academics with a real passion for their subject, and I became really interested in anthropology and human geography, which is what I'll be studying for my master's. Quite a few of my professors in Hong Kong encouraged me (unpr

Hospitalité (1958) by Dorothea Tanning Polly, I've been reluctant to write to you because my problems are so all-consuming and yet so non-tangible, and I don't even know if I have the words for them. I'm 24, from London, and I graduated from university last summer. I was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to spend the last year of university on exchange in Hong Kong, which was a really beautiful and life-changing experience, and I miss it every day. I grew up in an immigrant family without much money and with major emotional issues. My family keeps big secrets and doesn't…

'Why Did No One Tell Me That Life Is So Limited?'

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