Last friday I flew in from Morocco. I had been there visiting my sister for a month in the city of Fez. It was a great trip and a great place to just be an observer. I don't speak any other languge fluently, and even English I wonder if I have a complete grasp on.
There was one language I observed during my trip is so universally recognized that it was hard to ignore. We say music is a international language, that everyone understands love; even these are too complicated when you break them down. Music speaks to cultural influenses, style and events. In arabic there are over many ways to write love and even more to express it. We all speak our own love languge.
But a smile, a smile can connect aross a Medina, through a Taxi mirrior, and at tea with a Fezzie family. Yes, we all have heard of this and I'm not the first to have experianced this, but it is something special that you have to experiance to fully appreciate.
I was sitting a birthday party at a school and this 6 year-old Moroccan boy was next to me we could barely understand each other. Except when we smiled. I also taught him to fist bump-but it was the smile that communicated more.
While this may not be profound or new to anyone, but it is something I can fully appreciate now.
There was one language I observed during my trip is so universally recognized that it was hard to ignore. We say music is a international language, that everyone understands love; even these are too complicated when you break them down. Music speaks to cultural influenses, style and events. In arabic there are over many ways to write love and even more to express it. We all speak our own love languge.
But a smile, a smile can connect aross a Medina, through a Taxi mirrior, and at tea with a Fezzie family. Yes, we all have heard of this and I'm not the first to have experianced this, but it is something special that you have to experiance to fully appreciate.
I was sitting a birthday party at a school and this 6 year-old Moroccan boy was next to me we could barely understand each other. Except when we smiled. I also taught him to fist bump-but it was the smile that communicated more.
While this may not be profound or new to anyone, but it is something I can fully appreciate now.