Without a doubt, this past week has been very frustrating.
However, at the same time, it has also been very interesting.
It will not surprise me in the least that in 2-3 months when I look back at the week, it could well turn out to be one of my most significant weeks...ever.
Over the past four months, I have become increasingly Internet-dependent.
Certainly, I use the Internet to maintain my website. But it is also my link to the outside world both here in Costa Rica, back in Canada and any other places that the people at igoogle deem fit to tell me about.
I have neither a telephone nor a radio.
When a new tenant moved in next door, I gave him the TV that is included with my room. The only time that I watched TV was when a friend was visiting and we watched a soccer game that would determine the Championship of a Dutch national soccer league. One of players on the team that ultimately won is from Costa Rica. Much cheering in the neighborhood! But I digress.
Being as dependent upon the Internet as I am, when it is down, as it often is, until Thursday my reaction was one of anger and frustration.
Without going into detail, Thursday was either the high point or the low point of my frustration.
Midway through Thursday afternoon, I realized that I was driving myself crazy constantly checking to see if the connection had been restored. So I made a list of things that could do without the Internet.
This turned out to be quite lengthy list of options.
I was working offline on one of these options when the earthquake in Quepos (67 km south west of San Jose) struck at 4:16. To me it was just a tremour...found out the next day that it was serious earthquake.
But then things started to get really weird.
About half an hour after the tremour, I started to feel chilled. So I went to bed and got right under the covers. From feeling chilly I started to feel waves of warmth, which in turn felt like waves of energy.
I enjoyed this sensation for as long as it lasted. When I got up the Internet was back so I finished what I had been working on, when last online.
On Friday, even though the frustrations continued...2 interpersonal issues presented themselves...I felt really good.
I don't think that my feeling good was as much the thrill of new challenges to met as it was the confidence that the issues were resolvable.
On Saturday, 2 new issues arose that needed to be addressed.
Once again, notwithstanding the appearance of these new issues, I felt and continue to feel really, really good.
Not only can I not explain my physical sensation...not just a self-talk driven mindset...of feeling good, I am not even going to try.
I plan to ride the wave and enjoy it.
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