There is no matter to be diminished or truly compared with others when the individual is deeply connected with it and feels it so personal and difficult to pass through it at a certain moment...
But still...some things, although common in certain cultures and making perfect sense, sometimes even interesting or making a healthy living, still make others outsiders think they are lucky enough to live in other spaces...
Do you imagine growing in South Sudan and dying your hair in cow urine or even drinking it to cleanse your system...?
What about being bitten by lots of Venomous Ants to prove you're a man...?
Moreover, a tradition in Tujia people of China demands women and their families to cry over one month before wedding...so that they cherish the happy wedding moments...?
Imagine now having a baby and throwing him from a 50 feet building...
So...I am pretty happy around here...lol
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