We weren’t meant to live the “American Dream”
So I just finished seeing the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”and I just couldn’t stop laughing and clapping every time he did a crazy thing. But one of the things that caught my attention was the fact that as he kept doing these crazy/scary/amazing things, he stopped having his weird moments of daydreaming. At that instant some things in my life started to make sense, things like: spending too much time watching TV series, reading novels, watching tons of movies and daydreaming. We love the idea of adventure, and we love the idea of experience the unknown, but we are so attached to the comforts of this life that we make fakes adventures for ourselves.
Lately since I graduated from college and was accepted in this beautiful adventure called World Race, I’ve been realizing that I have a HUGE addiction to comfort. I love to have things done in my perfect time, I love naps, and eating ice cream while a watch TV. I love to waste time doing nothing in my room, but as soon I see a movie, a photo, a word that refers to adventure I can literally feel my heart trying to get out of my chest, and leave me to goon its own journey.
I think God has put this spark in my heart to show me what it really means to live in this world. He made beautiful mountains, beaches, rivers, deserts, forest, jungles and so much more for us to enjoy, and the devil has made us believe that we are in this world just to work 8 hrs. a day, have a family to sustain, and have vacations once a year to rest in our house because a plane ticket is too expensive. God has put a spark in every one of us to see the world, and to share his love in it…“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations.”That’s what I want to do in this life. I want to run away from the comfort this “dream”offers me and throw myself in the comfortable and uncomfortable moments, tastes, and places God has for me. I bet you have felt this way at least once in your life, so don’t put it out with a movie once in a while …embrace it and follow Jesus’s steps in a beautiful JOURNEY.
