Why the ‘no’s’ are the best part of my Mexican life

It’s been 8 years of surviving successful the Mexican Caribbean. And let’s conscionable accidental that my life, due to the fact that of the lukewarm Mexican culture, is precisely what I wished for. My privation was to unrecorded a beingness of creativity, successful implicit freedom. Freedom to enactment erstwhile I want, however I want, arsenic overmuch arsenic I want. Without judgement. 

The no’s are the champion happening astir surviving successful Mexico. You whitethorn beryllium wondering what I mean by “no’s”. That’s easy. 

Life successful paradise is afloat of the connection “no,” explains Bel. (Elizabeth Ruiz/Cuartoscuro)

• No judgment.
• No stressful enactment environments.
• No colorless grey life.
• No sitting successful traffic.
• Best of all… nary pants! 

That past 1 whitethorn person caused you to rise an eyebrow, but it’s harmless, I promise. 

No grey

No greys here. (Dimitris Kiriakakis/Unsplash)

Before coming to unrecorded successful Mexico I was successful the Royal Australian Navy. For galore years, my beingness was grey. Grey ships and grey uniforms, oftentimes accompanied by a grey sky, starring to a drab grey mood. Nothing but a colorless grey existence. And immoderate blue. After all, the water and entity are bluish connected sunny days. 

I’ll admit, it affects your mood. So erstwhile Mexico’s vibrant colour and lukewarm radical welcomed maine with unfastened arms, I couldn’t defy being here. Originally it was going to beryllium for a year. One twelvemonth turned into two. Two turned into eight. I’m inactive present and loving it. 

No pants

No pants (or subject boots). (Bel Woodhouse)

When I near the Navy, I swore I’d ne'er deterioration pants again. Heavy agelong pants and steel-capped boots are a happening of the past. Now my airy and breezy beingness is afloat of colorful skirts and airy summertime dresses swaying and swishing connected the oversea breeze.

Paired with large formation hats, it’s a acold outcry from the past. Sandals person replaced the boots and are perpetually removed to excavation my toesies successful the sand. It is 1 of the elemental joys of beingness that inactive makes maine smile. 

Unless you’ve spent years clunking astir successful dense boots you whitethorn not recognize but you’re astute radical truthful I’m definite you get the jist of it. Just deliberation backmost to a clip erstwhile you walked barefoot on a formation and however relaxed you felt afterward. THAT is what I mean. 

No pants is astir apt the biggest blessing successful my beingness and 1 I treasure daily. 

No judgment 

Everyone is invited successful Mexico, nary judgement. (Mantamar)

The Mexican people’s warmth and acceptance nurtured my reawakened creativity. Which present swirls done my beingness similar my swirly swishy skirts. Light and breezy, adapting and fluid, flexibility and state are present my life. 

Living here, you tin unrecorded the beingness you want. 

Want to beryllium a writer? Grab a publication and pen and spell beryllium by the water oregon successful the section park. Or drawback your laptop and curl up with a java oregon veggie foodstuff astatine your favourite café. No 1 judges.

Want to beryllium a photographer? Grab your camera and rotation the streets, beaches oregon quality reserves. Sit successful a parkland chatting with someone’s grandpa — 1 of my favourite things to bash because, let’s look it, they person the champion stories and bask being regaled by tales portion you drawback immoderate large shots. Again, nary 1 volition attraction and it’s a delightful mode to get to cognize your community. 

No stressful enactment environments 

No offices. (Bel Woodhouse)

I’ll rotation nary stressful enactment environments and nary sitting successful postulation into one. Plus let’s propulsion successful nary irritating brag oregon superior. They each benignant of spell manus successful hand.

I unrecorded successful Cozumel. It’s walkable and a joyousness to locomotion around, truthful there’s nary sitting successful postulation oregon having to permission aboriginal to let for it. Instead, I locomotion on the Caribbean seafront oregon spell for a greeting swim. I don’t cognize astir you, but I overmuch similar to commencement my time this way. 

As for the boss… I’m the boss. My days are arsenic flexible arsenic I like. I enactment the hours I like, and arsenic agelong arsenic I conscionable deadlines, nary 1 cares however my days are run. Plus, my enactment buddy is the cutest small purry snuggle buddy curled up by my side. That’s a measurement up from sweaty sailors successful my book. 

I tin enactment from anyplace I want. Today it’s a formation club. What’s your bureau look similar today? This is mine. 

Can you relate? Do you imagination of a beingness similar this? Well past fto maine stock that your dreams tin travel true. My imagination did. The beingness I wanted portion successful the Navy. Don’t get maine wrong, I americium fiercely arrogant to person served. But I americium besides fiercely successful emotion with my caller Mexican Caribbean beingness afloat of fantastic ‘no’s’!

Mexico Correspondent for International Living, Bel is an experienced writer, author, lensman and videographer with 500+ articles published some successful people and crossed integer platforms. Living successful the Mexican Caribbean for implicit 7 years present she’s successful emotion with Mexico and has nary plans to spell anyplace anytime soon.