The more and more I learn about mindfulness and curiosity, the more I am in awe of their power. For at least the past 3 years, I’ve both researched and thought about these topics, as well as conducted my own personal experiments in them.
When I entered my Junior year of college, just after my first experience living abroad (in Paraguay) for the summer, I remember consistent and intense feelings of overwhelm. At 20 years old, living in Paraguay was my first interactions and observations in a third-world country, and while I was familiar with the statistics about my privilege having grown up in the U.S., actually seeing people trying to make ends meet with such scarce resources caused a deeper, more visceral understanding of it. When I got back to the States, I just didn’t feel like what I was doing was important.