2022-04-09, 06:57 AM
When one travels a lot, as you do, netlama, one becomes more connected with the world. Places are no longer abstract, photos or names on a map, but locations that you have experienced first a hand. When those places show up in the news or commentary, it impacts you much more. It is a place you care about. I spent three months in Afghanistan, mostly is hard to reach places, in the 70s, and so I feel (and have felt) some of its pain over the last decades. As I spent 5 years wandering in my youth, I have many places which elicit such responses. I don't think that is a bad thing, right?