Expand Your Mind. Travel. Learn. Read. Repeat.
In one of my graduate courses we have a case study on Chad. Its a little complicated and beyond the scope of my blog so I wont get into detail here. I have never been to Africa but as part of the studies I have to learn a lot about Chad and Africa. Its so easy as a middle class American living in a very affluent area to forget about how most of the people in the world live. I have travelled to many third world countries where people don't have electricity and get their water out of wells in the ground, some of which include Laos, The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. Its easy to forget in your dad to day life about how it really is to survive for most people on the planet. That is where the quote comes from "first world problems." Take for example, my iPhone. Its my second iPhone in 4 years. Lately it erased all of my contacts and phone numbers...annoying, yes. Life-altering...not really. Is this a first world problem? Totally!... I believe its never