I mean… what a journey.
The woman behind Classybyher is finally speaking.
It’s been a long one, and perhaps, the hardest.
When I first started this website in 2019, I never imagined that five years later I would pack my life into three suitcases, leave a high-salary managerial job at a multinational, and find myself in Paris, studying management again, surrounded by art, and writing this very update on a cool, rainy summer evening.
I still remember the day of my program interview.
The administrator asked me, “Isn’t it hard for you to leave everything behind and start over?”
And I replied, “Of course it is. But I’m not starting from zero, I’m starting from my experiences.”
Big words, I know.
The following ten months were some of the toughest in my life.
Heartbreaks, misjudgments, mistrusts, all of them stripped away my illusions and showed me how fragile and naive I still was underneath all the strength.
Sometimes, experience helps you make smart decisions, but it can also hold you hostage when it’s time to evolve.
Freedom, I realized, isn’t about letting go of people or places.
It’s about letting yourself go, so you can finally meet the person you were meant to be.
I came the longest and hardest way, but I haven’t even truly started yet.
My list of galleries, shows, and Parisian cafés is longer than my entire diary.
And yet, I promised myself to stop rushing, to trust the timing.
I mean, look at me now, who would’ve thought that this art-loving soul would finally find herself at 33, in the heart of Paris?
Keep following Classybyher, not for advertisement, but for admiration.
For the beauty that lasts, for stories that deserve to be told.
There are so many more to unfold.
Xoxo,
Shae
