We’ve all have those moments when we feel like stopping and just yelling - or staring at nothing while doing nothing. These situations of stress, anxiety, frustration or whatever it is can feel endless, but once you visit your happy place your mood does a 180.

English Oxford Living Dictionaries describes happy place as “a place which a person associates with happiness, visualized as a means of reducing stress, calming down, etc.; (hence) a happy state of mind.”

Your happy place may be your bed, the beach, a specific table at a specific restaurant, a little cabin in the middle of nowhere, a park, etc. The options are endless.

It all depends on you and what you enjoy.

I have two places I like to go whenever I have those freaking-out moments. My living room - which has a huge window and overlooks the whole city and the beach, and Blue House – a music academy I went to several times a week.

The problem with my happy places is that they are 2,393 miles away from me. Same continent, but different country. I couldn’t get in my car and drive there if I wanted to.

After graduating high school and moving to go to college, I left everything behind. I noticed that the separation-feeling became worse whenever I felt like visiting my happy places.

I didn’t have a classroom full of pianos to go to anymore.

I couldn’t spend hours locked in a soundproof room surrounded by friends playing different instruments and singing.

I didn’t have a window I could open to feel the beach breeze in my face while I cuddled in a swing chair with a book.

I did not have all of that, and I still don't.

So I encourage you to take advantage of the closeness to your happy place and visit it often.

Cherish It.

Enjoy It.

Appreciate It.

Realize that there’s something you can do - a place you can visit when you feel like disconnecting - because you don’t know it yet, but you may have to leave it one day.