Transience

Credits of photos : myself, friends and family

So, last weekend I had a brief visit to Kelantan. I'd never thought I'd actually see it again for a very long time. Nothing much has changed along the way, but Kota Bharu got itself a flyover in my absence and it's starting to look pretty busy. I didn't really take that many pictures or did as many things as I would like to do, but here are a few brief stuff which ended up on my instagram. Mostly food related stuff. Had a brief meet up with my friends and that's about it.

It just occurred to me, that despite sharing the exact same experiences, two people may perceive and change differently. I always thought that naturally, my being away overseas, having the opportunity to see and experience things and meet people that my peers who stayed home couldn't, they and I would have changed world views. Being in school, uniformity is demanded, and there's not much difference from how one person sees things from another, or at least, even if there were any difference, you can sort of understand why you think differently from your peers. Being away, I have no idea what these people go through, and I always ended up with the conclusion that "they and I are of different worlds now, I had the opportunity to see things and meet people that they couldn't. They couldn't understand because they didn't have that chance, but if they did, they would have, might have felt the same." Bu then I look at my peers who goes through about the s...