hearts_in_fiction
"You're just living in your phone."
"Thailand? That's not a real plan."
"Be realistic. Dreams like that don't happen to people like you."
She heard it all.
At 17, she was just a girl from India with an almost impossible dream's - to leave everything familiar behind and build a life in Thailand.
A girl who found comfort in Thai BL series, Thai pop music, late-night conversations with people she had never met, and a phone screen that sometimes felt more like home than reality.
While everyone around her was planning a "normal" future, she was planning hers differently.
Thailand.
A scholarship.
A new life.
A place where she could finally belong.
But dreams look beautiful on a screen.
Reality doesn't.
There will be rejected applications, financial struggles, family expectations, loneliness, self-doubt, societal pressure, and countless people telling her that she's wasting her time chasing something unrealistic.
And maybe, for a while, she'll believe them.
Maybe she'll wonder if everyone was right.
Maybe she'll almost give up.
But what if the dream that everyone called impossible was simply a dream that needed more time?
This isn't a story about a girl who had everything figured out.
It's about a girl who kept walking even when she had no idea where the road would lead.
From a phone screen to Bangkok.
From watching her dream to living it.
From "you can't" to "I did."
Because sometimes, the most unrealistic dream is the one worth fighting for.
♡ A story about dreams, rejection, friendship, fandom, growing up, finding yourself, and finally becoming the person you always imagined.
And maybe... this isn't just her story.
Maybe it's the story of every girl who was told to dream smaller.
Welcome to her story.
Welcome to the beginning of everything. 🇹🇭✨
"One day, Thailand won't be something I watch through a screen."
"It'll be the place I wake up in."