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Being Open to the World Will Always Be the Right Choice
At worst, you’re just ahead of the curve
I’ve met people who believed their country was the best. They thought the rest of the world didn’t matter. I’ve tried my best but this stays the one opinion I can never wrap my head around.
How can you know for sure? What do you know about the rest of the world? Have seen how big it is?
Even if you spent your life traveling, you would barely see half of it. On top of this, you can never understand a country well until you know its culture. To know its culture well, you need to spend a lot of time connected with the language.
I understand the choice of staying within one’s own country. If that’s your thing, go ahead. You’ll just be missing out on a lifetime of mind-blowing experiences.
Learn one language and both the number of experiences and their intensity will increase manifold. Add a few more languages and you’re off to the stars.
Do Your Own Thing
A few months back, I visited an island in Japan. Some friends recommended me to go to a small Yakitori place there. The owner spoke English and was a talker so he shared his past with me and my friend.
