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Going Within. What Does it Mean?

I heard the phrase “your inner world creates your outer world” about 5–6 years ago. It really stuck with me.

Anna Simpson
5 min readJul 19, 2019
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My husband calls me sometimes an imitation Yankee, since I have been Americanised living in the USA for 8 years. Our American-British debates who is better, higher or more superior, amuse me quite a lot. Even though, I am living in the UK full time now, the USA will always remain my second home. Surprisingly, I have always felt like home there, from day one, even when I first came over here.

I have indeed Americanised over this significant period of time while living in the land of opportunities.

I fell in love with the idea that America has always represented: freedom, equality, and prosperity. It is a place where people bring to life their most cherished dreams. I am being poetic here but I truly love this country, its spirit, its culture and people. It does have its problems, but they are minuscule and insignificant compared to third world countries, like Ukraine (my native country), where corruption, desperation and poverty govern life. It is a sad reality of my native country.

I am so grateful that my American saga of going through immigration journey has come to a successful end and I am an American Citizen! So, I am not an

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Anna Simpson
Anna Simpson

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