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| From: | Pookie (201.202.46.142)
| | Subject: | No Really...Listen to Your Heart | |
Date: | June 15, 2007 at 10:51 pm PST |
When you do not feel confident with your decision--any decision--stop there and evaluate your choice until you feel 100% confident with it. When you feel something is not right in your heart, listen, and listen hard until you truly hear what it's telling you. You will know when you have made the right choice. Today, I could have had a very scary, horrible experience, but thanks to God, my positivity, my faith, my calmeness, I came out of the situation ok. I chose to make the best out of what my choice had brought. This morning, I could not decide if I wanted to spend my weekend in Mal Pais alone on the beach soul searching, reading, and appreciating life, if I wanted to go to Arenal with a large group of students, or if I wanted to acompany my family to San Jose for Father's Day weekend. I didn't want to be completely solo all weekend, and my sketchy bite is not doing so well in the sun, so I decided to head to Arenal with the group of students, although I am not fond of many, I do not like to go out with them, and I wasn't completely comfortable being around them. I didn't feel completely comfortable with my decisio, and I wasn't super excited to spend my weekend with them. Should have listened to my heart. Because the lower level Spanish classes had a field trip to San Ramón this morning, they had a head start to Arenal. I was supposed to meet up with them at San Ramón to take the bus to La Fortuna (Arenal). So, I took my bags, paid my colónes (less than a dollar) to get so San Ramón, and I got on the hour and a half long bus drive. I only had to make sure I was there by 4 to catch the next bus with the other students. I should have had plenty of time. However, there was a car accident on the highway. To be exact, the car in front of us was seriously hit and damaged. Our bus stopped extremely fast by a huge ditch in the side of the cloud mountain...yes...lots of drama. Four o'clock passed as we sat there waiting. Obviously, I was not going to make it to San Ramón. I now had to head back to Puntarenas...and the bus going back to Puntarenas should have just left from San Ramón. Thanks to the bus driver, he told me exactly where to go so that I could pick it up. All I had to do was walk a little whiles to a bus stopping point a little farther up the mountain. I got off the bus, and yes, I am aware this is not the safest thing to get off the bus and wait for another on the other side of the Costa Rican highway through the mountains, but if I wanted to get back to Puntarenas, I had no other choice. I found the point, and I waited. The driver told me it would be no longer than ten minutes before he passed the point, but a good 40 minutes passed before a bus drove by. Luckily, for me, after ten minutes of standing there, it started pouring...POURING...cold rain. I had an umbrella, but I still got a good shower. I stood there with my backpack, my clothes bag, and a bag of fruits and watched the traffic slugger by at the pace of a snail. The entire mountain was backed up with cars. Then, I saw it...my bus...it said Puntarenas...then below it, it said, "Directo." I tried to flag it down like a jumping idiot, when the driver honked and flashed his lights to let me know that THAT bus was not meant to stop. I was not worried. Oddly enough, I was sooo calm. I knew God was taking care of me. Then, before I knew it, there were 3 other ticos who came out of nowhere, stood by me ,and decided to wait for a bus at that very point. I was almost laughing at this situation. It's almost as if they thought I was lonely or something. Actually, I was happy and relieved to not have to spend my weekend with the group. I would much rather spend it with my family. And why didn't I hear my heart telling me that before?? So we waited, and twenty minutes later, a random bus passed by that stopped, and I asked if it would take me to Puntarenas. The bus driver said he could take me to Esparza, but that I could find a bus to Puntarenas there. Although he had a full bus, he let me ride up front with him, and he told me that "he couldn't just leave me there after hearing about a girl in San Ramón who was stolen, raped, and killed two days earlier." Yes, God is SO good to me. Literally, the nicest bus driver I have ever met, he actually gave me a free lift. He dropped me off in Esparza, where I found another bus. Although the driver couldn't take me to Puntarenas, he said he could drop me off in Barranca (outside of Puntarenas Central), and from there, he PROMISED a bus would pass to take me all the way to Puntarenas. He took one look at my bag of fruits, and he even said that if I gave him a sapote, I could ride for free! These bus drivers made this experience so much more enjoyable for me! This one even said he would visit me so that I could show him where all these amazing trees were lol. Enough said, I made it back to Puntarenas in one sloppy, wet, and dirty (but smiling and hopeful) piece. The entire journey, I thought to myself, "I now know how to listen to my heart. God lives in my heart, and He was talking to me, but I wasn't listening." But He taught me such a valuable lesson. It could have been a miserable experience, but I made the most out of it. I am not going to go too far and say it was enjoyable, but I definitely am grateful for the experience. Grateful is the key. God literally stopped me in my tracks to turn me around and send me on the right path. I am glad I finally heard Him, and I am glad I accepted what He wanted for me. Ironically, it was what I wanted for myself all along, I just never realized it--I never heard it. I am back home now in Puntarenas, and the family was so glad to see me. Tomorrow, we have a special day in San Jose to go to the Organic Farmer's Market, go shopping, visit more family, run errands, and enjoy each others' company...with the bonus of speaking Spanish, which feels so good in my heart. I feel so good in my heart, and I cannot wait until tomorrow.
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