Moving to Costa Rica alone at 19 with no plan
Why I decided to book a 3 month trip to Costa Rica with no plan, all by myself...
All right gents,
This is where I am gonna be spending the next 3 months:
The jungle in Costa Rica. More specifically a small primitive hut in the jungle I booked on airbnb lol.
Why did I do this?
To be honest, I don’t really know.
Something about Costa Rica spoke to me. Beautiful nature, lots of sunlight (this time of year), fruits, surfing and stuff like that. I don’t even know how to surf.
But other than that I don’t really know. I don’t know anyone, I don’t know what to spend my time on, I don’t know anything really.
I have a vague idea that I wanna surf, lay on the beach drinking coconuts and make youtube videos.
But not knowing what I’m gonna do is also part of the plan.
So many people have their life laid out step by step. Go to school, go to college, get a degree, get a high paying job, family, kids, nice car, yearly tropical vacation, bla bla bla.
We are all so comfortable. We never do anything unexpected or unplanned. And that was kinda the point with this trip.
I wanna do something unexpected and see where it leads. In 3 months I might be an entirely different person, I might have blown up on youtube and have more than zero people reading this substack lol.
Or I might just sit in this hut for 3 months and do absolutely nothing and feel like it was a total waste of time.
But either way, I know I am gonna learn something from it.
Then at least I have done it, and can safely say that it just wasn’t for me.
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. But that’s okay. The journey changes you. - Anthony Bourdain
But I don’t wanna look back 30 years from now and say “what would’ve happened if I just booked that flight”. That stuff will literally kill you. That’s also why I try to make content on youtube and instagram and write newsletters here. Because I don’t wanna look back when I am older and say: “Maybe I would’ve been good at that social media stuff”.
I don’t want all those “what could’ve happened”. I wanna do it and if it works out it does, and if it doesn’t it doesn’t. No big deal.
And look, I ain’t trying to sound like some dude who got it all figured out just because I went to Costa Rica for 3 months. Not at all.
I don’t even really like it yet. I would honestly rather be at home right now. But again, that’s the point. To do something uncomfortable.
What you want in life is beyond the uncomfortable. And it doesn’t have to be “moving around the world” uncomfortable. It could also just be putting down your phone and actually doing something productive. That’s uncomfortable as well. It could be signing up for a mma class, it could be a lot of things.
But you don’t magically achieve what you want in life by staying under the blankets in your moms basement playing GTA 6.
You have to do something.
So if you want to learn how to stop scrolling your phone all day and actually start doing productive stuff, you can read my last newsletter here:
Thanks for reading and godspeed.
— Kasper Veritas