I may not be young. I may not be old. But I’ve traveled and I’ve seen a good bit of the world thus far. I know I haven’t seen it all, but I’ve developed a capacity to accept the new or the unknown in the places and cultures I visit for the future.
Malaysia, however, proved me to be quite wrong on that fact.
I have never in my life been so challenged having everything I’m used to become different and unable to keep in the way I’m accustom.
And I literally mean EVERYTHING.
I couldn’t communicate like normal through the language barriers, I couldn’t shop at the grocery store like normal, it was so hot I couldn’t sleep like normal, no furniture or breeze where we stayed and I couldn’t find a way to pass time like normal, clumsy transportation options so I couldn’t go anywhere without hassle, and plumbing was altogether changed as you can read in one of my recent blogs – I couldn’t even use the toilet as normal.
In short, I was stunned at how much I felt oppressed and unable to be a shred of myself of experience normal life.
A little too extreme?
maybe
But you’d feel similar I’d venture to guess. So let me tell you what I discovered incase you ever find yourself in this situation.
Paul says ‘I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some’ in 1 Corinthians 9. I learned that it’s not about me feeling comfortable and like myself because to be like those around me, like the country around me; I was able to save some and commune with the contacts we were placed with.
A video || so you can understand some of the craziness of Malaysia
