Perhaps one of the greatest possible dangers of being in a place we feel is misaligned with us is idealizing the place we feel is more aligned with us than anywhere else as a kind of compensation, compensating for an unsatisfactory present with an imaginary better future.
For me this danger is not only a theoretical possibility as I did fall into it a couple of times in the past when I found myself in a very similar situation. But this time, unlike before, I've refused to let myself be dragged into this danger again by living in the present as I've elaborated in my companion blog post in Russian.
If you also feel you are in the wrong place now, you are welcome to ask yourself whether you are idealizing what you feel is more aligned with you than anywhere else on this planet - or even elsewhere. ;-) It's very easy, and even soothing, to blame the place where you live now by comparing it with your "ideal place" and saying that everything is totally different there as if it were a rose garden with no shortcomings whatsoever.
I once made the mistake of idealizing one such "ideal place" of mine, only to realize later that my "love" for it was blind. In retrospect, I couldn't see it objectively enough while I was still living elsewhere. Idealizing the place I felt was the perfect match for me was a very convenient way to escape from the present in the place where I actually lived.
Hopefully, I'm not making this mistake again. Even when I mention, as objectively as possible and with a sufficient dose of humor, some advantages of the place I feel is more aligned with me than anywhere else to some people here, a few of them wisely ask me if I'm not idealizing it. I have to "disappoint" them every time by saying "no" and even mentioning some of its disadvantages to show that my love for it is not blind this time.
But I also have to be honest with myself. I can't fully deny the possibility that I may still be idealizing this place. I've found a perfect way to check whether I'm making this mistake again or not: (re)visiting this place in the near future. But even then, I may still be idealizing it a little, as I can't fully see, as a tourist, what a permanent resident can see. What I can do is experience this place during my forthcoming visit as if I already lived there.
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