It sometimes is very difficult to balance the worldviews of vastly different cultures on what "suffering" entails... sometimes, when someone tells me that they have had one bout of diarrhea, or a cold, and they are "suffering terribly, too much, too much, it's too hard to go to work", I want to grab them and shake them, and yell at them, "Well, at least you're not living in Darfur, so you can watch your wife being raped in front of you before being hacked to pieces and then having your children slowly die from typhoid or malaria plaguing the refugee camp you've run to, while frantically worrying about where their next meal will come from" or " At least you're not living in a North Korean concentration camp" or "At least you have a roof over your head, food in your belly, and clothes on your back, and your family is alive and well, JERK!"
I sometimes feel like I live in culture shock everyday...
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no, no no. you'd be a wreck if your whole life was lived in culture shock. Let's call it... living for a world of more: more-eternal worldview, more-oecumenical community, more-authentic life, more-wholistic perspective, more-fulfilling work. Oi, that's not asking for the moon is it? :P
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