This may sound like a retarded point coming from me, someone who has traveled quite a bit, but the other day it struck me how similar everyone's life is across the globe, just performed in a slightly different way. I saw a woman texting on her cell phone, and because I couldn't read what she was saying, my brain was saying that she must be saying some completely original Korean thing that I couldn't understand.
And that's when it struck me . . . she was probably texting something very similar to the texts that I send. to friends, to family, whatever. Just because it looked different, my brain was thinking the ideas behind her words must be different too, when it obviously is just a matter of not being able to interpret what the words mean, not that their meaning is truly all that different from anyone else's.
Kind of a weird point, and somewhat hard to explain, but it makes sense to me.
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