Most of the time when people talk to me about the race, they ask questions like “Whats the most amazing place youve been to?” or they say things like “Im so jealous! I wish I could do what you are doing!” Now dont get me wrong, I love the race. I love traveling the world and living out of a backpack and volunteering with ministries in every nation. But I also want to be real. And the reality is this: The world race is ridiculous. You do ridiculous things and find yourself in ridiculous situations and many times you look around and say “Is this really happening?” So here are 10 realities of race life that you may or may not have heard about.
1. You “do your laundry” by spraying your dirty clothes with fruity perfume…for the second straight week in a row.
2. Baby wipes = showers.
3. You see an ant swimming in your coffee, you fish it out and continue to drink.
4. You see two more ants swimming in your coffee, give up and just try to drink around them.
5. You turn the bathroom into your home office because there is only one outlet and it happens to be next to the toilet.
6. You become a vegetarian for days at a time because (you are too lazy to cook/you can’t afford/the grocery store doesn’t carry/insert other reasons here) anything besides PB&Jelly sandwiches.
7. Everything is a bed. A desk at a school, a bus seat, a pile of backpacks, the floor. It don’t matter. It’s a bed.
8. You become outraged when any article of clothing costs more than $3.
9. Yea, there are five holes in your shirt but it still fits.
10. “Fashion” and “style” become very relative terms.
