I could tell you about my trip to Puerto Viejo. It’s a small town on the Eastern coast of Costa Rica, and it is the most chaotic, crazy party town I’ve ever been to.
Week two is wrapping up for me at this mission in Costa Rica, and here are my latest observations, presented in a very particular order, not random at all, no, of course not, that would be lazy.
You know me; I’m like the king of metaphors. I use them like a funeral home uses Kleenex, like a takeout sushi restaurant uses disposable chopsticks. I use them like.. well, I use metaphors like I use similes, but you know what I’m talking about.
My first weekend here in Costa Rica, and I wanted to do something adventurous. My friend Janine said she had some friends in northern Costa Rica, so Friday afternoon, I through on a backpack, grabbed a taxi ride from Leo, the fellow who drove me from the airport, headed to one of the private bus company stations (Pulmitan), and grabbed a ticket up towards Liberia.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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