moving away from home at 22 | first time living alone, adulting is hard, & trusting the process

Words cannot genuinely express how comforting your videos are. Instead of how most YouTubers show all the good parts, you show both the good and bad which just makes me feel less alone.

Linda you have single handedly healed my relationship with food and exercise. You are the most inspirational real person on the internet

Mother Sun is an idol, an icon, a legend. Her words resonate so much ❤

linda!! as a singaporean fan i've never felt more happy that you chose Singapore as a place where you can start this new journeyy. your videos are so comforting and i sincerely wish you all the best in life!! please please do a subscriber meet-up I'm sure so many singaporean fans would love to meet you and share our home with you :"))

Linda, there’s something so beautiful about the way that you storytell and share your thoughts. It’s ethereal. I’m a fellow young creator in my 20s - just quit school and work to do what I love through this platform - and creators like you inspire me. ❤

“While I am on this hunt to where to call home next, in the meantime, I’ve been trying to make a home in myself.” This line is so poetic and beautiful ❤

This is for anyone that might be having a hard time with change. I spent a good chunk of my life living in a place that I hated. I was locked away in my room when I wasn’t at work. Picked up a second job to stay away as much as possible and in the process changing my mind into thinking “I’m doing this for extra money” knowing full well the second job hardly made a difference in income. When I left that place, the first night in our new home, just me and the person I love most in this world, I was finally at peace. I was home and have forever felt loved and safe and happy since that first night. Sometimes I still feel like I don’t deserve this or that maybe I don’t belong, mostly because I’m so grateful to be in the place I am now. Home isn’t where you grew up, maybe not even biological family. Home is where you belong and feel a sense of peace

Mother Sun has so much wisdom that I wish more people told eachother. It’s so refreshing ❤

I moved from Germany to Finland by myself when I was in my early twenties as well. Stayed there for 5 years, moved back home and from there to London. Now I’m back in Germany but open for moving abroad if the chance would come. I’ve learned so much about myself during my years abroad and had so many amazing experiences that changed me to the person I am right now. I hope you have the most amazing time Linda and cherish every second of it! “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” 💕

I moved to NY from Norway when I was 24 for the first time on my own, last year of University (choice was actually between NYC and Singapore lol). It was the best experience of my life. It was the year where I truly got to know myself, and grown mentally. I went from a young adult to adult. I understand going into something unknown but it is also how YOU make it. Enjoy every moment with yourself and meeting new people, you will grow a ton! PS: you have a better view from your apartment/room than I did xD

DUDE I LITERALLY LOVE YOU, I WISH YOU THE BEST FOR YOUR JOURNEY AHEAD !!

This is so emotional, I’m truly happy for you, Linda! ❤

I can't believe it's been three years since I first found your channel! It feels like you're my best friend, the one person I can relate to. I've watched you go through your ups and downs throughout college, and I'm so eternally grateful that you are here and living and happy and sharing what you believe and what you're learning as you grow. I'm not in college yet, but I'm already nervous about moving out. Hearing you being so accepting of growing and becoming an adult is so comforting to me, but I'm so excited for when you get to go home, scream when you see Milo and mother sun again. <333

I don’t know why I’m crying after watching this video. I think everything she says, experiences and her moving into adulthood relates so much to how I’ve been feeling since I became an adult. Trying to figure out my purpose in life, trying to feel like I’m living and not just existing, trying to find my home away from home and trying to make friends, everything seems so hard and sometimes it makes me want to give up…

"You are not lost, you just finally have a chance to explore yourself without being tied to a specific outcome." I love you so much, I feel so seen. thank you🥲

"There is no reason for them not to like you, but if they don't like you, they're not your people." 😢😅

I cried when I saw your parents face at the airport. It reminds me myself when I was 24. I moved to Canada started living myself. I will never forget my mom’s face when I said bye. She was waving until I couldn’t see her. only I can see my family once or twice every 1-2 years. Still miss them so much but now I married and kids in Canada.

Linda literally summarized my adult crisis rn. " I feel old, I feel young, I feel like I have time but running out of it all at the same time.

i dont usually comment on videos much but this one really spoke to me. I did a semester abroad to South Korea last year and I related to this video so much. I once saw a quote that says "people have a hard time letting go of their suffering. out of fear of the unknown, they prefer a suffering that is familiar." I think the point you spoke about, saying that sometimes the familiar sounds more comforting than the unknown is so true. I was extremely sad living in my small hometown and i had daily struggles but the thought of having struggles i would have no idea how to overcome in a new country surrounded by new people was so difficult to wrap my head around. However, South Korea ended up feeling like home to me, just like you described Singapore felt for you. I felt welcomed and happy and, well, at home. I am so thankful I took the step forward to go despite being scared. I guess all this said, I just wanted to thank you for your videos, you inspire me so much and i relate to you in so many ways. It is comforting to know we are not alone in our experiences, no matter how scary they feel.

Your sentiments about moving and continuing your studies abroad in Singapore really, really remind me of what I did when was in college and studied abroad in London. I had lived in a suburban town near LA all my life, grew up here, made all of my memories, and had my village here, but I knew I needed a change and applied to the program. Before I left and during my first week in London, I was terrified, but kept an open mind to everything. After my first week of realizing, "oh wow, this is a brand new chapter of my life and I get to whatever I want with it," I embraced the journey even more and honestly found a renewed sense of self in London. It's been 10 years since I was there and I still have not fully recovered from having left London, because I fell in love with it and the person I became while I was there... I think about my time there everyday and I try to visit back every 2-3 years, but honestly, it was one of the most terrifying, exhilarating, and joyful experiences of my life. Having been so horrible at adapting to change and going with the flow in my younger years, moving away from home and throwing myself into a new space to build a new base for myself was the best thing I ever did and I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU as you continue on this new chapter. You may be homesick at times, but I promise you, it is going to be for the better in the long run. Also, your way of describing being homesick for somewhere in the beginning reminded me of this quote from one of my fave movies (Garden State): "You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place." sorry for the essay, but I've been following you for a couple years now and I've thoroughly enjoyed seeing you learn, thrive, and grow! this vlog just really hit home for me :') sending all the love to you from sunny LA (although I wish it was from London ahha)