I want to tell you the version everyone skips. The first three weeks I moved to Costa Rica I was lonely in a way I had not been since I was a kid in a new school. I did not know anyone. My routines were gone. The things I reached for automatically, the coffee shop, the drive, the familiar, none of it existed in the same form. And I had made such a point of telling people I was doing this. I had been so clear and so confident and so sure. So I sat with it privately and told nobody and kept posting like everything was exactly as beautiful as it looked. It became that beautiful. Eventually. But there was a real period in the middle where I questioned everything and felt very far from home and had to actively choose to stay with the decision I had made. I stayed. If you are in your first few weeks or months somewhere new and it does not feel like the content yet, that does not mean it will not. It just means you are in the part that takes longer than the algorithm suggests it should. ...