I don’t remember having a bucket list. Not an official one, anyways. Instead, it was more like a bunch of wishes I had expressed at some point or another in my life. However, before the ending of 2019, I realized that I could strike out a few elements from that non-official bucket list (you could…
How to survive when things aren’t going as planned
For our parents it was easier. They could be a teacher, a doctor or a police officer. My mother has told me the story multiple times about how she had her life figured out by eighteen. However, for us, millennials, is not as simple as that. There are millions of careers and destinations we can…
Thirty Seconds
Life is like a dream and time is illogical, it doesn’t know of rules or patterns. However, we forget it sometimes. And when we believe we have everything under control, thirty seconds are enough to prove us wrong… It was a Tuesday, 4:24 in the morning when the earth shook. After the earthquake finished, I…
My Top-Five Experiences in Seoul
On October from 2019, I traveled to the country of my dreams: South Korea. Last year, unexpectedly, I was able to scratch that name from my bucket list. Why unexpectedly? It was sudden. It was only a month since I had returned from Costa Rica. Getting to South Korea took me around two days with…
Four Tips to Follow when you are new to Traveling
It wasn’t any special day nor did I had a revelation. I was tired, though. But that was common after my shifts. I was scrolling trough my social media and I came upon one post from Mochileando. Since I live in a island, tickets for going anywhere are rather expensive. However, this time the…
About Dreams and Deceptions
As I kid, I always dreamed. Nonetheless, growing up, I noticed the adults around me didn’t. In fact, mature people perceive dreams as something naive. They rather talk about goals and logical plans to achieve them. Yet, there is something about dreams that makes our eyes shine and that keep us awake at night; something…
Fitness Journey: How Everything Started
During the holidays in my country, the food plays a central role in the parties. Being one of the longest Christmases I’ve known, starting in November and finishing in February, the festivities in Puerto Rico will make you gain weight. However, once the new year starts, people includes “weight loss” in their resolutions. In my…
Ever-changing Beauty
What is to be beautiful? What does beauty look like? The look for these answers seem to drive a lot of lives. A few years ago, I did not consider myself the embodiment of the ideal beauty standard that media presented us (even now I don’t). I was overweight, with crooked teeth and an acne…