Unfold your own story

Reading through the book “Where two seas meet”, the author describes the importance of being an open person. There are two positive things of being open to the others, first is that you have to talk with the others and tell them your own story, and second is that it makes you a good listener of the others stories. It doesn’t matter what kind of story you are going to tell to the others, being that from your earlier childhood or from the latest past. The important thing here is that when you hear somebody’s story you learn more for that person and for his/her experiences, and on the other side they can learn more about you. This is an important fact which brings us back to D. Pinto’s theory “know your own culture first, then know the others culture”. This theory makes you more complete as a person because you may easily discover differences between them, and you may choose the best from both of them and create your own personality, your own opinion, and your own views.
I think that people should be free to move from one country to another, because this is the best way to interconnect people with one-another, to exchange cultures, to see what is good and what is bad, what is right and what is wrong, with other words to let them percept the world from their own experiences and from their own views. We are all witnesses that if we know the English language we will be able to communicate with the people from all around the world, so this is an international language, and maybe in the future we will forget our own language because of the globalization, who knows?!
On the other hand, there are differences between people, some of them are open and want to talk, but some of them are closed to themselves and want not. For teachers it is important to show to their students the possibility of packet book, so they can express and know themselves better, and this also makes the possibility to have their own “Mappy Road”. We learned that everybody has his/her own perspective of seeing things. Not everybody will speak or write for somebody else story in the same way, even if they are told the same things.
However, to summarize all this being said above, I think that in the end all of us agree with philosophic words of Masao Abe: “I’m not I; therefore I’m you. And that is precisely the reason why I am really I. You are not you; therefore you are ‘I’. And that is precisely the reason why you are really you”.