People shift, and change
October 13th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
When I first stepped onto the grounds of the castle a year ago and began my journey within the construct of what we call Youth with a Mission (YWAM) I was amazed at all the places people had been. Here in YWAM people travel– a ton– and it becomes oddly normal to just hop on a plane to half-way around the world.
Being one of the more traveled people in my homeland of the states, Idaho, I was giddy with excitement, as well as amazed, from hearing eveyone talk about how in just one year they had been to over four, five or six countires.
Needless to say in the last year, I have aquired this same view on travel that many of you had when I came here, that going to Kenya is almost the equivalent of going to the store. You see we have conversations so fluidly and easily here about travel and going to and from them.
I literally just had a conversation that went something like this;
“Hey, is so-and-so back?”
“Back from where? Kenya?”
“No, I was meaning back from the store.”
“Oh, close enough.”
There is always this disconnect when I am talking to people back home now, they don’t understand flying, driving, and taking the trains the way that we do here as the YWAM Herrnhut community. For us, it is simply part of our job, our way of life. For them it is a hassle, a financially taxing and time consuming commitment.
The surprising thing is, with as much as we travel, for me it never quite loses it’s exotic and exciting aura of adventure.
-Miss Mykell
