What am I doing here?

Just living – day by day, not for tomorrow, next year or the next decade

Eating too much, but not worrying about it too much either

Slowing down to enjoy nature

People watching, people listening

Thinking, but not over-thinking anything

Not rushing through the days (even though they seem to be going by faster than I would like)

Living in the moment

Being content with “enough”

Learning a new language, slowly, but ok with that too

Communicating with people without a common language

Missing the things I love most

Practicing my active listening skills

Detaching from the things I realize I don’t really love or need

Smiling every time I hear music, which is a lot

Breathing fresh air

Walking, a lot

Taxi-pooling (colectivo), bussing, saving on gas and emissions

Buying only what I need to survive (and an occasional pedicure)

Writing fewer lists (using less paper, killing fewer trees)

Understanding Pura Vida and trying to subscribe to it

Wearing shorts!

Wearing a bikini! Holy whoa!

Enjoying the sweetness of organic fruit and other foods

Living a simpler, better, more conscious life unattached to a bunch of stuff

Spending time with myself

Doing nothing at times and not feeling guilty about it

Watching sunsets

Meeting people from all over the US and the world

Witnessing true gratefulness. I watched a guy on the beach hold his plate of food up over his head and to the ocean before eating.

Writing this blog in the hopes that people enjoy it in some way.

Hopefully inspiring others to be unafraid of change or jumping off the prescribed timeline that society plans for us.

Just to name a few...