Location: Kuwait
Time: 22u54 - 3/02/2009
I love people watching.
As I'm sitting on a bench in the transit-hall of Kuwait international Airport, I can't help but think how many people there really walk this planet.
Sure, we've seen the statistics and we all know the numbers, but have we really ever stopped to think what those numbers actually mean?
Imagine, if you will. Try to collect all your thoughts, your memories, your hopes, your dreams, your fears... our entire mind seems like a universe on its own, with our ego and persona at the very centre of it.
In the West, we are brought up with the idea that our individual is all-important. While I certainly don't judge or condemn this way of thinking (after all, history has shown us that the act of one individual can influence the lives and thoughts of billions), it still baffles me just how tiny one mind really is. Everyone I see here passing before me, from virtually every culture, every religion, lifestyle, wearing robes, burka, pants, shirts .. everyone has that universe of their own, everyone is capable of having the very same thoughts I'm writing here.
Think of cities like Mumbai, Paris, Bangkok, New York, London, Beijing... inhabited by millions. It's strange what effect looking at those numbers can have.
Mind-blowing. Literally.
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I know exactly what you are saying and feeling, I always have that feeling coming over me when I am taking public transport anywhere. Then I look at the people and intensely realize everyone in my bus or subway is going somewhere, has a story, a face, is someone with fears and joys and hopes and dreams. And that's only 1 wagon or bus, the one I am coincidentally in, but all of them are full of people, in all the cities all over the world, a crazy number of people. And all these people's minds are their own center of the universe, they're the most important person in the world for themselves. It's mindblowing to realize.
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