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⌈ Secret Post #2170 ⌋

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I was browsing through F!S yesterday in my grandmother's house on my phone, reading all the threads and adding my thoughts where need be. And then, my parents called me: it is time to go.

When I went out to the car, I immediately stopped. Why? Because I saw this.

And suddenly, it hit me.

It really hit me.

Here I am.

Outside my grandmother's house.

In a Malay village.

In 30 degree heat.

Those are coconut trees.

The beach is right there.

And I am talking to people.

people

On the other side of the world.

From Scandinavia. From America. From Canada.

And over there,

It's freezing.

It's snowing.

And the people there.

the people.

They've never

Ever

Walked through a tropical orchard . Or even own one.

Never plucked mangosteens from the trees and eat them on the spot.

Never once lived in a wooden house in the middle of a jungle.

Never tasted ketupat or rendang during Hari Raya.

Never celebrated Hari Raya.

And.

This place.

This community.

Is.

Freaking.

...

huge.

Tl;dr : someone just realized how big this place really is.

Yeah, the world's pretty freaking cool sometimes, isn't it. Shit like that always blows my mind. You know. We've been and walked on the fucking moon, we can talk to people around the world instantaneously, we can travel to almost anywhere in the world trivially, we have pretty much any information from history available literally at our fingertips. It's pretty great.

True, but I think what astounds me the most is the fact that there are people out there who lead completely different lives than mine and experienced things I've never experienced before. Didn't really notice that until now.

Edited 2012-12-12 01:05 (UTC)

Oh yeah that too, definitely. And there's a lot of them. 7 billion. There's millions of people in Los Angeles living their Los Angeles lives, and millions of people living their Tokyo lives, and a billion people living in India, and millions of people living in London, and each single one of them has the exact same detail resolution that you do - that's what gets me, that all these people aren't just abstract people but that their world is as real to them as mine is to me. Iterated 7 billion times.

Ugh, now you're making me miss South-east Asia (Thailand in my case).

Where I am right now, it's below zero and while the snow is nice, I still wish for the possibility of warm snow... XD

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