Hello and welcome. My name is Mary and I'm the host of Prologs, a lifestyle podcast where each episode is like a digital journal entry detailing whatever it is I'm going through in life at the moment.

I talk about my journey with mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, personal development, and more.

So join me every Monday morning for a reminder that we're all still figuring out life for the first time and you are still in the

beginning of your personal story.

Hello, you guys. Welcome back to the Prologs podcast. Thanks for tuning in. My name's Mary.

And I'm joining you right now from the middle of the night from a hotel room in Dublin because

I decided that I hated the episode that I was originally going to post today, but I didn't

want to leave you hanging. And thankfully, I had a microphone with me. So we're going to go through

this together. Because of that, I think today's episode will be a little bit shorter than usual.

I'm going to try to re-communicate the ideas that I had originally

recorded a few weeks ago. The episode is called, was and probably still is, called wherever you go,

there you are. And I picked that topic for today, May 26th, because a few days ago, I passed my

one-year anniversary of living in Scotland,

which as you can imagine for an emotional girl like myself has brought up so much reflection

and has made me feel weird things, good things, bad things, sad things, complicated

things, weird things. Anniversaries of any kind affect me pretty

deeply. I feel like I'm someone who feels like they're constantly revisiting past versions of

themselves and like constantly is being transported to another time, another day, another era of

life. And I feel like I relive moments over and over and over again.

I feel like I live my life in a very cyclical way. Like I'm always circling back around to something

that's happened in the past. Maybe I just live in the past and that's something I have to work on.

But either way, anniversaries and milestones mean so much to me. And something like this, something as massive as moving to another

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