It’s time for a nice, trite post that will hopefully motivate me in the future.
The last week I’ve been sort of just feeling sorry for myself. The people that I know here were busy and for various reasons I wasn’t able to make any plans with them.
And so for the most part, I just stayed in my apartment and didn’t do anything social or really anything to take advantage of where I currently am.
And it was sad. I was also sad specifically about a girl I’m seeing here (or rather: not seeing in this case).
After about a week of that I finally decided: you know what? I’m done with this. I’m not just going to sit around and wait for things to happen or to go home. I’m here, I’m going to make the most of it.
And along with my attitude, things took a 180 overnight. I quickly lined up a bunch of activities which led to seeing people immediately, and I’m even planning now to go to Uruguay tomorrow morning and spend the weekend there.
It was all just a basic mindset shift.
I just needed to actually DO something to make it happen.
And you know what? It was uncomfortable. It would have been much more comfortable to just stay in like always and read or play games or something. But I would have gone home in a couple weeks feeling incredibly disappointed.
Instead, I’m not only doing things that I’ll remember for a long time, but I’m also feeling way more fulfilled and much happier overall.
I need to just remember in the future that I have control over these types of things. If there’s a problem, I can and should fix it myself.
The turnaround really was abrupt. I put some effort in, and overnight things completely changed. The las 2-3 weeks of that trip were some of the most memorable and best I had.
The only thing I feel bad about now is that I didn’t put in this kind of effort earlier.
It makes me think: what else am I not putting effort into now? Not just on trips, but all the time?