Every time you take a trip they say it will change your life. What they don't prepare you for the lack of change from everyone around you. Fresh of ideas with a new perspective on life, you can't see the world through your old eyes any longer because a gate has been opened that once had been sealed. Until you begin to travel you will never understand this door I speak of. Even when you think you have seen it all there is ALWAYS something that will blow your mind.
I have been more fortunate than most in my travels. In my short 22 years of life I have been blessed to have traveled to many countries including: USA (where i'm from), Canada, Germany, Belgium, England, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, South Korea, China, and now perhaps what will be my most life changing trip yet Cambodia.
Sitting on a plane leaves you a lot of time for reflection. Twenty hours to be exact in this case, fifteen hours from Atlanta, GA to Seoul, South Korea and then a connecting flight lasting 5 hours from Seoul to Siem Reap Cambodia. I reflect on what and who I leave behind in the US, what I have given up to come on this trip, but most importantly what I will gain.
If you look toward your future and there is not more to gain than what is behind, how do you push on to live the next day. Life is filled with regrets and mistakes we all wish we wouldn't make, but it is not those mistakes that define us, it is how they refine us that make us the people we are.
I hope I will be able to go into the fire of adversity with a lasting hope and ambition that does not extinguish the adversity, yet sets it into a all consuming blaze that causes people to see a light where they once saw only danger.
With prayer and a building hope, here I am!
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