I have been sitting with an empty document open on my computer for far too long now. I have gone back and forth, writing and deleting words over and over again. Let’s face it… I just don’t know what to say. I guess a part of me feels obligated to be this inspirational adventurer who has this perfect life wrapped around her little finger. The girl who knows what to say and when to say it. The girl that posts cool pictures and makes her Instagram page look like that perfect life that everyone secretly wants. But the truth is… the real honest truth is that I don’t know what to say. Currently this said adventurer is sitting on a rooftop chatting with her friends about how one of them mistakenly ate soap thinking it was sauce from his dinner. As the pinkish orange clouds engulf the mountains that I am surrounded by my heart is in awe of where I am. I don’t know how to put into words the things that I have seen or the things that I have experienced. Listening to the fait distant laughter of the city. The rushing cars and the waterfall in the distance I feel as though life moves way to fast. So many times people move on to the next things on their lists. They have set times for each event. They live life in the fast lane rather than stopping and “smelling the roses”. So many times I catch myself traveling in the fast lane. Forgetting to stop and look around. Stopping and breathing. Looking up I see more stars than I have seen since being back at home. Earlier tonight as I sat down to attempt to write this blog I felt an overwhelming rush of emotions and the necessity to break down and cry. Rather than that happening I had two of my closest friends sit down and instead of crying I sat there laughing with them. Reminiscing on the memories that we had made over the past month we had lived together in Quito. Month one, over. I have survived one month on the World Race. Crazy to think that a year ago this race was not even a thought in my mind. I didn’t even know it existed. Now, here I sit. Here I am living a life that God knew I had but one I didn’t think could happen until now.
