3 Months In - Just Keeps Getting Better!

Hola! 

And greetings from San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua!

Wow...three months in. My first instinct is to say I can't believe it's already been three months! But when I really think back on all the places I've been, people I've met, and things I've been able to do, I am blown away by the fact that it's ONLY been three months! It's weird, while the days seem to fly by faster here since I'm having so much fun, overall the weeks and months seem to last a whole lot longer. It's as if your perceived duration of a specific time period is mostly determined by how many "wow" moments you fill it with. The more you can pack into a given time period, the longer it will seem, especially when you look back upon it. And vice-versa. To illustrate this, I compare my days here, filled with fun and excitement, to my time in accounting - sitting in the cube, those days seemed to just crawl by. But before I knew it those days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and months melted into years. It was scary how fast a month or year could blow by in spite of the individual days being painfully slow. Even scarier would be talking to a friend after a few months and when the inevitable question of "so anything interesting going on with you lately?" came up, often neither party had much of an answer. "Not really just workin a lot blah blah" before the conversation turned to current events, sports, or other people. Where did that time go? Kinda sad when I think about it now.

Cheers to making up for lost time!

So anyway I am very excited to present to you guys my very first video blog! It's exciting for me because this isn't some random idea I got. Before I set out on this trip this was one of the specific things I envisioned myself doing. I saw it not only as a cool way to communicate what I'm up to, but a way for me to work on my speaking skills, presence, delivery of content, etc. I just underestimated how tough it would be to actually stand in front of the camera with the little red button flashing and make something happen. I rationalized putting it off to the future when I'd have all these amazing epiphanies and life lessons to talk about, when really I was just procrastinating because of fear. Fear of looking stupid, of freezing up, of not knowing what to say, and then putting it out there for the world to see and judge. Fear wants to keep us right where were at, right in our little comfort zone. It doesn't want us to expand into awesomeness. I've had to push through this many many times and I'm always glad I did, so without further adieu:

And there you have it! It's funny to watch myself in this video knowing exactly what was going on in my head at the time. Like in the beginning when I'm all smiley with this look of "uhh am I really doing this right now" plastered on my face lol. But after a minute or two I fell into a nice rhythm, stopped thinking about what I was doing and just started doing what I was doing. Accepting and rolling with it. While I was hoping to go for 3 - 5 minutes, I was interrupted towards the end by the camera shutting off and was later shocked to find out that it did so after 10 minutes! While I hope to become more concise and grounded in what I am doing in the future, I am very pleased with how the first one came out and am excited to continue and improve. 

I hope that you can sense some renewed excitement in regard to my blog. For the last several weeks I had been resisting it as an obligation, and just wanted to get away from all that and do my own thing. Maybe that will happen again on this trip but for now I am excited to get this thing rolling again. Finding that balance. Later this week I'll put out the long awaited Santa Maria Volcano Hike video from Guatemala which is totally kickass and I am finishing up editing a video I put together from my time in Antigua which I should have ready early next week. In addition I've got tons of raw footage from my surf trip, hike through Corcovado national park, as well as some other cool clips that I'll start piecing together. 

Well that's it for now. Gonna chill out and go surfing for the rest of the day. These videos are a pain to upload as I need to trek an hour into town to get on a decent wifi connection which even then the above video took 3 hours to load while I sat posted up in a little cafe watching spanish soap operas. Ended up missing my return shuttle back and only had enough money with me for a cheap dorm bed. Went to bed hungry and annoyed with the load music playing but alas I accomplished what I set out to do - upload the video and update the blog. 

Victory!

Ross

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