Hear

One thing that happens to you when you leave home is that you have to then either find home or you have to understand why this is home or you have to become comfortable in a new space so that it will be your new home. And the best way to do that is by understanding. Often times you aren’t forced to understand, if you are in the majority. If the norm is your world you are fine. If everyone has your accent then you don’t need to understand another accent. If everybody is your skin colour, you don’t need to understand another skin colour. If everybody is your culture, if everybody is your language, if everybody is your socioeconomic class, whatever it may be. Then you don’t need to understand. The fastest path to home is just understanding. We live in a world now where there are fewer and fewer experiences that we all relate to or that we have all gone through. So while that’s great for individualism and that’s great for us living in our own niche, it has robbed us of a collective understanding.