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Most of us stress too much in our everyday life, why?

Is everything an emergency?

Sara Burdick
7 min readMar 16, 2022
Jardin, Colombia-Nature doesn’t worry about the next storm

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
Steve Maraboli

We got a couch yesterday, we didn’t go out and buy it or anything, but it was my boyfriend’s couch that he had a friend’s house in the city. So we just paid a guy to bring it to us.

Things move back and forth; there are no delivery vans or Uhaul. I don’t know; we do everything through a person who knows a person, who knows a person.

You can almost guarantee that you will never know when to receive your item, but it will be delivered roughly within a 3–4 day window. How do I know they will provide because you do not pay them until they drop off the goods — all transactions in cash.

We do not Paypal or use a credit card to reserve or guarantee anything. It is the good old-fashioned word of mouth, and trust that if someone says they will do it, they will do it.

how we move things here! moto with a “pickup” bed!!

We had a rough idea that it would make it, but when I asked my boyfriend when he says, “this is Colombia, it will get here sometime this week, I think.

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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