Do
/doo/

Verb

1. perform (an action, the precise nature of which is often unspecified)
2. achieve or complete
3. act or behave in a specified way
4. be suitable or acceptable

“What are you doing there?” is a reasonable question to which I don’t have the standard answers. The things I will not be doing include;

• working for money
• studying to achieve credentials
• travelling much beyond where I am here in El Valle

For the next three months I only have two things to do;

• live
• feed three cats, twice a day

I get to do this in a big well-appointed house nestled in a jungle. Power, plumbing, Internet, Netflix. No human neighbours in sight. A thirty minute walk gets me to a small town in a small country where I don’t speak much of the local language, and have no friends (yet) or family.

Does that sound like a good time to you? What would you do with an abundance of time and freedom and other resources under these conditions? Is slowing down, doing less, for that length of time in these circumstances something you would actually enjoy? Or can a prolonged stay in a comfort zone cause discomfort? I get to find out, and will tell you about it.

Oh, and about those cats. I’ll write about them when they do something interesting.