Amazing Race

I love to watch this reality show because it's about traveling! It's a discovery channel, just that you don't only discover places around the world, you get to discover different personalities of the contestants too.

There are friends, couples, newly-weds, father-daughter, mother-son etc etc who came to participate and it's common to see a lot of argument especially when they are competing under pressure.

HOT pressure.


But one thing that I noticed during the tasks is that the contestants will keep looking at the progress of other contestants while trying to finish their tasks at the same time, which unfortunately is a very natural reaction when it comes to competing with others.

However, by doing this, they are distracted and can't be 100% focused on finishing their tasks. It contributes to the reason they lost, sometimes.

We are always competing with other people, whether it's about who gets the highest result in an exam, who gets the highest salary in career, who gets to marry the richest guy (LOL), who gets married first who gives birth first blah blah blah.

But the truth is, we are only competing with ourselves and we only need to improve ourselves. Other people's successes don't matter, at all.

Also I see the difference of being able with someone who is calm as opposed with someone who just play the blame game whenever somethings gets wrong.

For example, in one of the races, the guy pointed to the wrong direction resulted in them wasting time to find the destination. His gf was very, very frustrated and angry with him because the one that she pointed initially was the right one and she kept on yelling "See I told you! You should have listened to me! You are always like that thinking that you're right all the time!"

Yeah, cameras are rolling, but nah, they don't care. Hahahaha. It's easy to burst when you're stressed but I guess all of us can do better than to blame each other. Still learning, still learning.

Another contrast example, this race is in Kuala Lumpur and the contestants needed to pour champagne onto glasses that are stacked in a pyramid structure. The guy kept on pouring but failed a lot of times (forgot how the game was played) and became very frustrated and disappointed with himself because it's the last leg and the last team to arrive may be eliminated.

His gf kept on cheering and encouraged him (which I thought it's a bit annoyed when someone is trying to focus but the audiences are cheering loudly especially during sports ahhahaaha). When the guy wanted to give up, the gf didn't blame him for not giving his best, and not being able to succeed in the task, but she pulled him to a side and calmed him down, and even said a short prayer together. True enough, the guy tried again, and this time he succeeded.

I always believe that when you're pressure, you just need to stop what you're doing and pull yourself back together. It miraculously has a great calming effect automatically and you will have your mind refresh.

In the end this couple was still the last team to arrive. But to their joy, the race is a non-eliminating race, which means that whoever arrived the last can still continue their race.


In a relationship, it's always good to find the key to communicate. Different people work in different way, you just need to find the way to communicate between 2 very different people.


Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Hebrews 12:1-2 -