February.
Month 5.
New team.
New leader.
New attitude.
New perspective.
These are all amazing aspects of how my experience in Thailand has been. Explaining each could make a nice “on the field” blog, but, that wouldn’t grasp what I learned this month.
Since November 2016 I have looked at the race like this:
“Ok vivi, you will learn a lot, help people, and experience new cultures….good for you. But WHAT WILL YOU DO AFTER THE RACE?”
Two thousand and sixteen and I was already worried of what I would do in August 2018.
Yikes.
Three months in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia as a full time translator kept my mind busy from dwelling about the future.
An insanely busy and productive month in Cambodia, reminded me how amazing living in the now is.
An with this new perspective I entered month five.
Little did I know what Bangkok had to teach me.
My team and I were provided with a condo for lodging, an eight hour day schedule at a school, as well as a daily commute on a common Thai public transportation.
Whoah. A MONTH OF REAL LIFE?
The commonality of this month brought such an amazing familiar feeling. A feeling one can come to crave when on the move every 28 days.
This sneak peak into the “what life after the race could look like” got me excited and building expectations…
Thailand wasn’t done with what I needed to experience.
One of our co teachers is an alumni racer. Morgan is the closest thing to what everything might look like in August 2018 that I’ve gotten to experience so far.
She has done the 11 months trip. She has struggle with the “what I’ll do after the race question”. And she now is living one of the millions of ways possible that we can chose from to live after the race is finished.
Her walk has showed me that what truly matters is your posture and excellence.
If your posture is to serve others, it really doesn’t matter where you are.
Regardless of what you choose to do every day of your life, do it with excellency.
I won’t lie to you saying I don’t think about what might happen in August 2018. But, now, i am fueled with the certainty that whatever happens after the Race I will be ok. There is no right decision, there is no wrong decision.
What I have is the choice of making the most of where God and I go.
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