# @alina_kaba on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeWtH7ONRsl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71692002-alina-kaba-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-11T12:55:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Alina Kabakova (@alina_kaba) — https://gondola.cc/alina_kaba

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Today I read a post saying that immigration resets you to zero.

And I don’t agree.

Yes, when you move to another country, a lot of things you built before may suddenly stop working the same way.

Your network is different. Your language may not be strong enough yet. Your diploma might need recognition. Your professional experience may be valued differently. You don’t know all the rules, cultural codes, or how things are done.

Sometimes it really feels like starting from zero.

But you are not zero.

You bring your experience, education, skills, mistakes, achievements, connections, personality, and everything you’ve learned along the way.

The challenge is not to rebuild yourself from nothing.

The challenge is to translate yourself into a new reality.

Maybe in your previous life you learned everything about green, red and blue. You became really good at mixing those colors.

And then you move to another country and suddenly yellow, brown and violet matter much more.

It doesn’t mean everything you knew was useless.

It means you need to learn the new colors — and figure out how to mix them with everything you already have.

That’s immigration for me.

Not becoming zero.

Adapting. Translating. Upgrading. Adding new colors to who you already

So let’s mix the colors. 😉

#thoughtoftheday💭 #immigration

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