A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Tag: world
The world sucks and so do we It’s easy to look at the world and think the whole place is going to hell in a handbag. Bombs are being dropped in Syria and Iraq killing thousands, both civilian and military alike. Millions of people are fleeing war-torn countries in search of new, safer lives but are instead finding only hate, prejudice and xenophobe. Russia is hacking the US, China is battling their neighbours for land, and President-Elect Trump (which is still hard...
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein Like most of us, I was given the opportunity to learn a new language as one of my chosen electives back in high school. Having just been forced to suffer through basic french all through middle school and not really enjoying the process I quickly dismissed the idea of tackling a new more challenging language. I had no connection to Mandarin, Cantonese, or Spanish; to me, they seemed...
