Just made smaller

We live in a community of the World. It’s bizarre to think only 10 years ago we wouldn’t have discussions with someone from Iraq, Iran or Palestine on a daily basis. But because we can now converse regularly with ease, former boundaries have dissolved and we have to reinvent how we view our world, mental picture.

We used to have those extraordinary meetings with people you know in your everyday life on a chance in some round the world, at airports, hotels and restaurants. You know those stories, "Oh wow, it was bizarre I was in a restaurant in Kathmandu and one of my acquaintances patting me on the back and asked how my daughter was! Can you believe it was John? I hadn't seen him in months and there he was in that restaurant, in Kathmandu!"

I remember seeing a high school friend in an Airport in Bolivia when I was traveling to Paraguay and the Bolivian Airline went on strike. We had to spend the night in the airport and my friend walks by, and we were both stunned to see each other.

Now it's just so normal to talk to people in Ireland, Australia, Puerto Rico on a daily basis. I know globalization is not supposed to be the best thing in the world. I like this part of it, creating relationships with people. This I can't see as bad at all. Call me naive, but relationships are the answer to the question, "What's the meaning of life?" That or 42.