Imagine spending one whole day, a 24-hour period, without looking at a clock once. Sure, maybe you've done this on a lazy weekend day because you had nothing to do. But what if you did this for a week, or for a month?
We spend countless hours everyday thinking about the past and the future - what we're doing in an hour, in a week, in a year, and we often mull over past events with both yearning and regret. It seems as if we rarely give direct thought to the very moment we are living in right now. If we could unload our preoccupations with the past and our worries about the future onto a shelf and temporarily let them be, we'd be free to be present in, well, the present.
The point: In just four days, I'll be headed on the biggest journey of my life thus far - studying abroad in Costa Rica for three months. While I cannot abandon the necessity of a watch due to the classes I will be taking, my goal for myself is to "Live in the moment" as fully as possible. The shelf with my past and my future will always be there, but I promise myself not to dwell on them too much. Instead, I will open my mind more fully to the experiences at hand, which I believe will allow me to more fully incorporate myself into another culture.
This blog will be an account of "Los Momentos" that I experience during this new chapter of my life in Costa Rica.
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