Resonating Culture

by Maham Jaffery (Pakistan)

I didn't expect to find Malaysia

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On board with a luggage of 25 kg, travelling in a plane for the first time, I thought that Kuala Lumpur will be a place where like I'd seen in movies people will be partying and enjoying life but to my surprise I found out something which though was a universal truth but hard to accept at first. There I saw people, waking up early going to their work places, working 8-5 five days a week, partying only on Saturday, running errands. Instead of looking for differences, my lens shifted to pointing out the similarities of human culture. They connections we all make, our goals, relationships, family issues. The more I dug the more I found that it does not matter from which country, race or religion we belong. Humans are all the same, they posses the same qualities, have similar nature and similar problems, though the way the deal with it might vary as some get drunk to numb their problems as their religion allows them while some go out for window shopping just to cheer themselves up.