My wish for you is that you continue.
Continue to be who and how you are.
Continue to astonish the world with your acts of
kindness.
Continue to allow humor to lighten the load of your tender heart.
-maya angelou

The first weekend I arrived here in Costa Rica, I spent the weekend in Jaco beach with a few good friends.

While sitting on the beach watching the sunset over the great pacific ocean, I had an overwhelming (but brief) moment of restlessness.

  run, surf, travel, plant, dig, learn, laugh, and do.it.all.

Then I remembered to exhale.

Exhale the expectations I have for myself,
the expectations that other people have for me,
exhale the urgency of being able to accomplish greatest in one instance, one experience, one relationship.

I am constantly overwhelmed by the feeling of running out of time, running out of youth…

Society in the United States will tell you that time is never on our side; it is always a race against the clock

What if time was on our side. What if we had all the time in the world?

I think we do.
If we create it.

We have moments to make mistakes and to trust that the universe will provide to us exactly what we are needing, we have the time and the space to observe new things about ourselves and parts of ourselves that we usually don’t have time to notice.

In the United States we are constantly told to strive for success. Work hard, long hours and be dedicated, Be successful, influential, powerful; decision makers, mountain movers, change agents.

if we actually took the time to step back and observe ourselves without over thinking situations and relationships, maybe we would realize we already are all of those things.

We are incredible beings with so much to offer each other.
And somehow we get easily caught up in the urgency of a fast paced life.

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the absence of urgency is where greatness is born