I wonder if there are others out there that can relate? You go on a awesome trip, whether its a day, a week, a month, however long, but when you get back you go through a few days of depression. I know for me its something I’ve dealt with since I was little, anytime I spent the night with someone I would always come home and be grumpy and depressed for a day or two. That’s how I’m feeling now sitting in JFK after a few amazing days in Switzerland, I’m ready to go home, but I’m not at the same time. Its a feeling that you can’t explain too, almost like you want to cry, or like a part of you is missing. As someone who is pretty introverted being around people drains me and I like being alone most of the time, but something about traveling or spending an extended amount of time with people just feels good and I don’t want it to end.
I think this desire to be around people and experience new things and places is an innate desire that God has placed in us. We were created to be in community, to do life together, to laugh, cry, get mad, have fights with those people that are in our lives. But above all else, we’re created to love community in order to better spread the gospel. I don’t believe that this “depression” if you want to call it that, is a bad thing,it’s not something to rebuke the devil over, its something to learn from. It’s not good to do life alone, and I think that these feelings are proof of that. As an encouragement, if you have community that when you leave you feel “empty” I’d venture to say that you’ve found a good thing, and that you shouldn’t take it for granted. So i’m taking these feelings as growing pains and lessons that I’m just now learning, don’t isolate yourself and try to do it alone, its not how you were created to be! I forgot to mention that I got to travel with one of my future squad mates Jesse Vincent while in Switzerland! I’ll link his blog in here as well! jessevincent.theworldrace.org
Its now just 4 short months until training camp and 6 months until Launch, I’m excited and nervous, but so so ready to do life with my squad, and to travel the world! The greatest part is telling others about Jesus while we’re doing it! That said, I’m around 3700 dollars short of my first deadline goal of 5,000! Thank you to all of those that have supported me so far it means so much! Hit the subscribe button up top to stay updated on my journey and posts leading up to The Race. 
