レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 9月18日 00時22分

Facebook gave me this picture as a "memory" this morning. 7 years ago. I was 20, flat broke, living in Costa Rica, wondering what to do with my life. My house was a shack on the beach that would flood every time it rained (and this was raining season so I got used to shuffling muddy water around with my bare feet every day). I had a family of scorpions living in the bathroom so I set up a shower outside; a hose duct taped to the wall and a shower curtain that didn't really do the job. The only clothes I owned were long dresses and bikinis and everything smelled like mold. I worked as a waitress some days and as a bartender some and if I was lucky I'd scrape together $10-$15 per shift. When I got really broke my friends let me work at their dive shop which meant lying in a hammock all day waiting for people to walk in - which never happened because it rained for 28 days straight that month and the place was a ghost town. I drank a coconut every morning and ate papaya for lunch. Some days I'd wake up and after counting the coins in my wallet, had to decide who'd get to eat breakfast that morning; me or my dog. My dog, Quila, always won. I had no savings. No phone, no computer, no ticket out of the country. No plan. Every day I'd wake up before sunrise, walk down the beach and sit in meditation for at least an hour. I had a dirty old yoga mat that I'd roll out in the sand and then I'd salute the sun, watching the sky change color as the surfers dropped in on waves so big the ground shook with every set that rolled in. Materially, I had nothing of value. No education, no career, no ambition to do anything extraordinary. All I cared about was being happy. And I was. I had been. I didn't have much but I never felt lonely. @ahlaluna was by my side. I had boyfriends sometimes but mostly, I was content without. It would be exactly five months until I'd unexpectedly board a plane to Aruba, walk into a surf shop and stumble across the love of my life and from there, everything would change. But on this day seven years ago, I sat on the beach, a flower tucked behind my ear, watching the sun sink into the ocean, wondering:
is this really where I'm supposed to be?
#life

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