Sometimes living in this city comes with its own emotional baggage

Hey Asai,

I am glad you choose to reach out to a bunch of random strangers on the internet. Honestly, you are not alone in feeling that way, but I can only imagine how much worse it is for you at your age. Even my friends who are in their 30s and well established with 2 degrees are scrambling (and some failing) to execute a plan.

It sounds like you'd really benefit from mental counselling. There are some free ones available in HK that I can link you if you are interested. Listen, I came from an honestly painful childhood and when I left for HK, I stopped talking to my parents. It was an incredibly lonely time. I came for uni on a scholarship but I didn't really "fit in", I was honestly depressed, and I had no money (in fact I came to HK with 500HKD -- literally.)

I got lucky in the sense that I got a therapist that clicked with me. She helped me a lot. Unfortunately, I will have to stop seeing her soon but that's no biggie.

I don't know if you'd want advice. but I'd really recommend that you keep at it with school. You don't need to know what you want to do (I actually got into a science degree and have signed a job completely unrelated in HK), and you don't need to have the best grades. You just have to push through it whilst looking for any opportunity you can.

Feel free to reach out to me via DMs. I am a young woman in my very early 20s. I am currently kinda busy but I'll be more free soon. If you like cats, you are welcome to pet my future cat. I also teach IGCSEs and A Levels Sciences, if you need help with schooling, I am more than happy to assist you for free.

Take care.

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