Thoughts

Man... we are all so different.

We share the commonalities of being human, existing in this time frame, but it just hit me how different we all really are.

Where or why did this pop into my head?

I started watching the movie Minari.  A movie about a Korean-American family moving to Arkansas.  I was literally seconds in to the movie, watching the little boy in the backseat looking out the window at the hay bales along the road and it suddenly made me think about the experience of going elsewhere.  Especially into another country.

Like it made me think about travelling I suppose.  And how when I travel, I see things for the first time.  I see someone's city, someone's home, someone's... beach? and I make up my story about it.  How quaint it is, or magical, or special, or small, or ancient, or whatever adjectives and descriptions I make up about it.  But to someone who grew up there, or who lives there, it maybe just is what it is.

I remember visiting my brother in Texas (when he was down there for post secondary) and feeling some strange version of culture shock or something.... foreign.  Whereas, when Jason and I recently went a bit up Island and saw some beautiful groves of ancient trees, it felt familiar, like "yes, these are the trees where I live", even though I'd never seen them before.  

I did live elsewhere when I was a child.  For a year.  In England.  And from there, we travelled to some parts of France and Belgium and up into Scotland.  I loved seeing it all and seeing history and things that had been built so very long ago.  But... I digress...

I suppose seeing this little boy looking out the window at the bales of hay I found myself in his shoes wondering about this new place.  And then it made me think about how his experience would not be like mine... or anyone else's, even if we were in the same car on the same road, even if.  We are shaped by our experiences.  Our choices.  Our histories.  Our upbringings.... our thoughts.  Our inner chatter.  

I don't think I have any big thing to say about this right now, just that I was watching this opening scene and was hit very strongly by the thought "we are all so different."  And I suppose I wanted to attempt to record that feeling.