Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness
I started traveling when I was very little. My dad was a diplomat, so he used to take me with him to many countries on different continents.
As a young girl, I really hated this. I could not for the life of me make any friends. Jumping from one country to the next was never fun for me. For my dad, oh well, it was his job.
Unfortunately, my mom passed away when I was very young. So, I was kind of stuck with my dad. Who was, and still is, a great person and a great fatherly figure. It was just the traveling that bothered me so much. But, what did I know about the world when I was 7.
As I was growing up I realized how much traveling and getting to know different cultures has changed my life and my view of the world. My eyes were suddenly wide open.
When I started university in Oxford, UK, I was faced with many people who have never been outside of Europe. People who studied languages, philosophy, sociology and culture. But, yet somehow, the only line of thought they knew was the one they were thought at home.
It was then that I realized how much my travelings have affected the way I think and perceive. In reality, I did not know what the word racism mean until I went to a "white" neighbourhood in the United Kingdom. I was shocked to find out that some people still think like it is 18th century.
After school, I continued to travel on my own accord. I met an exciting group of people who called themselves Sparrow. We started a small foundation in order to gather money and start building different projects in less fortunate countries.
We have not completed a variety of home improvement projects in 25 countries around the globe. We have built small schools, libraries, and rebuilt homes for people faced with unfortunate events.
We are not Samaritans. We are humans, like everyone else. We have simply chosen to leave a different life. This is not to say that we are less selfish. On the opposite, everything we do is because it makes us happy to do it. Therefore, the selfishness still lives within us.
The difference is that we have found another way to define our happiness.
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As a young girl, I really hated this. I could not for the life of me make any friends. Jumping from one country to the next was never fun for me. For my dad, oh well, it was his job.
Unfortunately, my mom passed away when I was very young. So, I was kind of stuck with my dad. Who was, and still is, a great person and a great fatherly figure. It was just the traveling that bothered me so much. But, what did I know about the world when I was 7.
As I was growing up I realized how much traveling and getting to know different cultures has changed my life and my view of the world. My eyes were suddenly wide open.
When I started university in Oxford, UK, I was faced with many people who have never been outside of Europe. People who studied languages, philosophy, sociology and culture. But, yet somehow, the only line of thought they knew was the one they were thought at home.
It was then that I realized how much my travelings have affected the way I think and perceive. In reality, I did not know what the word racism mean until I went to a "white" neighbourhood in the United Kingdom. I was shocked to find out that some people still think like it is 18th century.
After school, I continued to travel on my own accord. I met an exciting group of people who called themselves Sparrow. We started a small foundation in order to gather money and start building different projects in less fortunate countries.
We have not completed a variety of home improvement projects in 25 countries around the globe. We have built small schools, libraries, and rebuilt homes for people faced with unfortunate events.
We are not Samaritans. We are humans, like everyone else. We have simply chosen to leave a different life. This is not to say that we are less selfish. On the opposite, everything we do is because it makes us happy to do it. Therefore, the selfishness still lives within us.
The difference is that we have found another way to define our happiness.
For more information about our home improvement and renovation projects visit http://windowsontario.ca/window-replacement-mississauga