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A great thing about life is that you can educate yourself whenever you want to. Don’t know a skill but entering adulthood? That’s okay, you can learn it today. You will not need to know how to change a tire as a kid but when you have your own car, it is something you must know. The best thing about the internet is that it lets people look up tutorial on YouTube without judging them.
There are specific things about every country or region that other outsiders have no idea about. You can’t expect them to know the facts when they have had zero interactions with your world. This is why people have assumed hilarious things about Australia. But they are not facts until they are based on the truth.
After spending all these years on earth, it should come as no surprise to us that all our actions, behaviors, and emotions affect the world. Things and people around us cannot live in their isolated bubbles. Even if someone says they love being alone, they can’t be on their own at all times. It wasn’t possible before either but capitalism has made sure that we come in contact with each other on regular basis.
You can find natural beauty anywhere in the world, but a lot of it has been covered by political instability, crimes, and corruption. Our world is filled with a lot more horrors than we are capable of witnessing at times. Most people have the hatred of a minority in their hearts, and some hate all the minority groups equally.
There are more than seven billion people in the world which is why it is impossible to get to know every single one of them. But luckily for us, people can be divided according to their nationalities or cultures for the purpose of study. We can learn about a group of people by studying their culture. No matter where people go in the world, they will continue to practice their culture. This is why we can study a culture in various ways.
Every house has a different system. Only those living inside it know how it operates and their struggles cannot be comprehended by anyone else. No one surveys home to figure out the life inside them. But the same isn’t true for countries. The lifestyle of a society isn’t something that happens behind closed doors, it is out in the open. There are methods in place to measure the quality of life in countries and based on the results of those tests, each state gets a special rating on a scale.
There are many things in life we do for the benefits that come with them. Everyone wants to do more of things they want to do but as we reach into adulthood, we realize that is a luxury and we can’t afford to follow our heart often. Even before we enter our practical life, everyone tells us that we need to make mature decisions.
We can make a statement for the sake of simplifying things but it may not be very close to the truth. For instance, saying that a lion is just a very big cat is true only in the sense that the two share DNA, but their lifestyle, habitat, and eating habits are completely different. A housecat will not try to eat you and there is a high chance that a cat in the wild won’t either, but we can’t say that about a lion.
There are many forms of beauty in the world. There are as many definitions of beauty as there are people in the world because what’s ugly to one person can be the most beautiful thing in the world to another. Our love for beautiful things drives us to make many decisions in life.
Media has the power to teach people about history and it can do the job pretty easily. There are no boring history lessons in movies. You can learn about things from your favorite TV show without even realizing that you are acquiring knowledge. Everyone knows about World War I and World War II, but the details are what we got from TV shows and movies. There are many benefits of learning history from entertainment content.
Every time you get a new machine or gadget, you open its manual first to read about it. The manual helps you understand the working of your gadget and guides you about how to use it properly. Without it, you might still end up figuring out how to make the machine work, but you can make a few mistakes before you get to that point.
No one can deny the power of a good story. Going to sleep while someone read to you from your favorite book is the best memory of childhood for many of us. It not only widened our imagination but also instilled the love of reading in us. It is also the reason most of us prefer fictional character over real life people.