hey and welcome to part 2 of the
pickuplines Q&A in this video I'm going
to be sharing with you the answers to
some of the more personal questions you
guys have been asking if you missed part
one of the Q&A I'm gonna link that for
you at the end of this video so let's
continue shall we I honestly never know
how to answer that question because I
don't think it's so straightforward so
both of my parents are from Afghanistan
although I've never been and they both
had to leave the country at a very young
age because of a war and so they decided
to immigrate to Canada but of course
that takes some time and is a fair bit
of a process so I was born in the
journey along the way so I was actually
born in Pakistan
once I was born it took an extra six
months for us to get the documents in
order for me to also be accepted to come
to Canada and so I started living in
Canada at the age of six months really
and I've lived there my whole life so if
you asked me where am i from I would say
Vancouver Canada although I currently
live in the Netherlands it was actually
a series of very unfortunate events that
caused us to meet so I was traveling in
Southeast Asia specifically I was in
Thailand and I had reserved a place to
stay on this very secluded beach that
was only accessible by boat and when I
took this boat the guy dropped me off in
totally the wrong place and it took me a
few hours in ridiculously hot weather to
find my way to the destination I needed
to actually be and so I decided to take
some shade under the only tree that was
on one of the most beautiful beaches I
have ever seen in my life and I decided
to of course take a picture of the
beautiful scenery in that moment with my
brand-new camera only to realize that
that had gotten some water damage on the
boat ride over and was broken and then I
heard this voice next to me say hey
would you like me to take your picture
and that voice ended up being Robin and
I was a little bit short-tempered with
him because I was a little bit
frustrated with all the things that had
happened that day and he too shared with
me his story of how he ended up on the
beach which was also a series of
unfortunate events and that's kind of
how our friendship started so we
traveled a fair bit together in Thailand
in Cambodia and then after that he had
to head back to the Netherlands which is
where he is from and then I continued my
travels solo in Indonesia and when
deciding where to go next we discussed
it a bit and decided that I would go to
Europe and we would travel a little bit
of that together and that's just
generally how our relationship started
so Robin is in fact plant-based so I
wouldn't say that he's necessarily a
vegan but he does follow a vegan
lifestyle 99.999% of the time the
exceptions being when he goes to
conferences in different places of the
world for work he does the best that he
can but if there are occasions where
there's a little bit of cheese on
something or a little bit of cream in
something he gives himself permission to
let it slide and I'm absolutely okay
with that as well I think it's about
doing the best that you can most of the
time and he's made so many gains and
he's done so well with this lifestyle
over the course of the time that I've
known him that it just makes me so proud
the answer to this one might seem
obvious at this point so Robin himself
is in fact Dutch so with the natural
progression of our relationship the
question kind of became are you gonna
move to Vancouver Canada or am I gonna
move to the Netherlands if we don't want
to continue this long-distance
relationship so he had just started his
ph.d so in many ways was less mobile
than I was because I was just wrapping
up a temporary position working as a
dietician at a hospital and I knew that
I also wanted to start pick-up lines as
my full-time career so moving to
someplace where I wouldn't have as many
distractions necessarily just seemed
like the perfect choice buycks I
absolutely love that in the Netherlands
everyone bikes everywhere there's bike
paths everywhere I mean it's just like a
labyrinth of interlaced paths that can
take you all over the country it's
flatlands so there's no need for cars so
it's good for health it's good for the
environment and I mean who doesn't love
bikes
no I do not speak Dutch yet so for those
of you who have been sending me messages
or comments in Dutch I'm certainly using
Google Translate or Robin Translate to
help me understand what you're saying no
of course not I mean reading the
comments you share about this kind of
make me laugh sometimes because I'm
human too and I have my fair share
moments of feeling down as well I think
what you see is me on the camera and I'm
obviously really happy but that's
because I genuinely am when I'm filming
and doing this kind of thing is my
passion so I'm smiling because that's
just genuinely how I feel but I do think
that perhaps I am happier than most
people only because I find gratitude in
many things of my day-to-day life and
that's something I'm always encouraging
you to do as well so you can achieve a
similar state of happiness most of the
time and of course acknowledging that
it's okay to feel down sometimes to be
honest I never thought I was going to
get a tattoo and I was actually going
through a very rough period in my life a
few years back and so I decided to
enroll in some meditation classes to
help me to kind of be more Zen and in
the present moment and I think these
courses really really helped me but
because I was so new to it I would kind
of go back to a stressful work
environment or lifestyle and I found
that a lot of it would wash away so I
started to use a pen and just draw a
little symbols on my wrist and because
I'm right-handed it was meant to serve
as a reminder that every time I saw it
to just take a deep breath and to be in
the present moment and I found that that
was actually really helping as well and
so then I decided at one point why not
just turn this into a very simple and
minimal tattoo and the reason that it's
three dots is because we are three
sisters in my family and I wanted them
to join me on getting it in the last
moment they both flaked out but I just
went ahead and did it anyway and I'm
really glad that I did
so before I went to university I worked
in several restaurants which may come as
no surprise I also worked at H&M and
then when I was in university I tried to
just focus mostly on my studies with the
exception of being a TA so a teaching
assistant in one course in university
and then after I graduated I practiced
as
tition of course in a couple of
hospitals as well as in a couple of
private practice clinics currently my
full-time career is pickup lime so
creating videos for a YouTube of course
and also counseling clients one-on-one
but I do have some visions for growing
pickup limes even more but if you want
to learn more about that you're just
gonna have to stay tuned alright so I
think we're gonna wrap up the Q&A there
I hope that you've gotten the
opportunity to learn more about me and
the pickup limes origin I also just
wanted to take this opportunity to say
thank you so much for all of the
questions the supportive comments the
emails the growth of pic of limes
community has just really nourished my
heart in my soul in so many ways I know
this sounds cheesy I just wanted to say
thanks so much and if I haven't answered
your questions I also answer some of
them for example on Instagram I share
things with you like what kinds of
things I buy when I go grocery shopping
my exercise routine general nutrition
tips and loads of other lifestyle tips
and hacks so if you haven't followed
pickup lines yet be sure to go ahead and
do that at pickup limes calm on
Instagram I've also created a brief Q&A
with some additional tips that I'm going
to upload onto the pickup limes website
so I'll leave the link for you in the
description box below and I think that's
it so hopefully we'll see you soon
thanks so much for watching and goodbye
from beautiful Santorini Greece
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