Born in Eastern Europe and now living in Western Europe, having traveled a little and observing things, I came to the conclusion that it is indeed a crazy world we live in.

• In some countries there’s a fight for surviving and having the daily bread(mainly in E Europe), while other countries forgot what real bread is and delight in all kinds of fancy foods(W Europe).
• In some countries people simply can’t change anything in the way their country is ruled(Burma/Myanmar, many Arab countries), while in the Western Democracy&USA there are too many voices speaking yet doing almost nothing.
• In some parts of the world there is lots of sunshine, maybe too much(S California, Spain/Portugal), while in other countries there’s just clouds and cold(UK), windy, or – the regular 4 seasons.
• The young children are reading the grown-up newspapers, since they’re free, and watching what the grown-up watch, trying to behave / do the things the grown-up do – the bad part is that their parents/supervisors don’t consider this premature knowledge/seeing as something unhealthy.
• Respect – mainly in the Asian countries, there’s lots of respect being cultivated, yet in many Western countries there is no such thing, and this starts from the home, goes to schools, universities, jobs, on the street, on the bus, on the underground – no respect.
• Temper – once people actually wanted to control their temper; these days in Western Europe you have to be careful how u talk to people, because everyone just reacts in what his disposition is – and many times is not nice. You never know when you spoke one word that the other doesn’t like and they hate u or worse…
• Mentality – Some people are hard working, laboring diligently to achieve something; other people just want to receive & demand to receive, thinking this is their right; other people just take it easy – all they have to do is work a little & they get enough money to live(W Europe); some people work very hard and can barely meet their needs/their family’s needs(E Europe) – out of these, some gave up on hope for better, they just go along… others(mainly the young generation) want more, strive for more, even coveting what the other people in better countries have…

sorry – just some of the observations I made as time goes by, as I travel, as I see things… Contrasts, strange, developing in an interesting(not so positive) way, west versus east, asia versus USA/W Europe, etc…