Just thoughts...Costa Rica
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Hello everybody, I hope that you are ok... and PURA VIDA!
When you are away from home, is when you appreciate the most... I say home, but I don't mean those four walls where you sleep in at night after work or after partying. I call home to the whole culture that is contained within a country, in the common of the people, where you feel part of a community that you understand and that also understands you when you communicate with it.
The eye and physical contact of the Costa Ricans, the white and clean smile of the Costa Rican people, the handshaking among guys and the kiss in the cheek at the beginning and the end of the day with the pretty Costa Rican girls; the flirting and the "coqueteto" in the bus... all the way to the holes in the streets and the retail trade on a Sunday market is what gives identity to a place and, indisputably you compare that when you are in a new and different place.
The warmth when speaking on the phone, the fact that someone holds a door so that you can walk thru, the greeting, not the social convention, which lasts three minutes and the Costa Rican people who give you a welcoming sensation every morning... It does not matter if you have little or much or where you live or who you sleep with, it is almost granted that at the moment you bump into someone you don't know at all, he/she will be saying Good morning! at least on your way to buy some bread and the newspaper on a Sunday morning...
The tamales and the "frias"-beers-, running after the bus that does not wait for us, the traffic jam at five, and the cold and windy but orange evening of December, the rice and beans... there are things for which half of the people of the world waits for a whole lifetime and maybe they hardly ever get to see or get... But we, Costa Ricans, have it just there in our backyard, so say thanks to whatever it is you believe in and enjoy it!
The level of technology is indisputable here, a country of the first world, but there is not comparison to the human warmth and the amiability of a tiny land in Central America... Costa Rica.
When you are away from home, is when you appreciate the most... I say home, but I don't mean those four walls where you sleep in at night after work or after partying. I call home to the whole culture that is contained within a country, in the common of the people, where you feel part of a community that you understand and that also understands you when you communicate with it.
The eye and physical contact of the Costa Ricans, the white and clean smile of the Costa Rican people, the handshaking among guys and the kiss in the cheek at the beginning and the end of the day with the pretty Costa Rican girls; the flirting and the "coqueteto" in the bus... all the way to the holes in the streets and the retail trade on a Sunday market is what gives identity to a place and, indisputably you compare that when you are in a new and different place.
The warmth when speaking on the phone, the fact that someone holds a door so that you can walk thru, the greeting, not the social convention, which lasts three minutes and the Costa Rican people who give you a welcoming sensation every morning... It does not matter if you have little or much or where you live or who you sleep with, it is almost granted that at the moment you bump into someone you don't know at all, he/she will be saying Good morning! at least on your way to buy some bread and the newspaper on a Sunday morning...
The tamales and the "frias"-beers-, running after the bus that does not wait for us, the traffic jam at five, and the cold and windy but orange evening of December, the rice and beans... there are things for which half of the people of the world waits for a whole lifetime and maybe they hardly ever get to see or get... But we, Costa Ricans, have it just there in our backyard, so say thanks to whatever it is you believe in and enjoy it!
The level of technology is indisputable here, a country of the first world, but there is not comparison to the human warmth and the amiability of a tiny land in Central America... Costa Rica.
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