The Joyy of Breaking With Society’s Expectations

How I broke the rules in Turkey and move to California!

It sounds crazy to leave your whole life and start over in another country, facing all of the challenges…

Let’s start at the beginning of my story:

It was 4 years ago, when I felt lost. I wasn’t happy and couldn’t enjoy my life even though I had a great job, and lived with my wonderful family… Something was missing in my life, I wasn’t satisfied and felt I needed  purpose. Although, I didn’t know what it was at that time, what I did know was that I believed there was more to this life right in front of me. 

I knew I didn’t fully agree with my societies rules, And I was so tired of doing the things that didn’t bring me Joyy. One day I said to myself “enough is enough, I need to do something.” 

I didn’t know what to do and who to talk to. I just had a feeling that I wanted to go to the United States. I could never fully explain the feeling from that day but it was something deep in my soul and I felt so strongly about what

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