It is a small world

This picture represents the Old Rotterdam, city that learnt to love in the past years. The story is of the city is well known, it was bombed and rebuilt as a cosmopolitan city. Some love it, some hate it. I feel it has changed over time but that does not imply a change for the worst.

In the end everything changes and over the last decades the world did change enormously. I am not talking about the rise and fall of cities but the rise of a new world: the digital one. Yesterday morning I realized this trough the following conversation I had.

While sitting behing my computer in the morning before leaving for university, a girl from AIESEC in China, that I did not know, asked me for details about our SN-coordinators. She got my adress trough @.net and assumed I was part of the NST thus available for questions. I answered her questions patiently and then she asked what my position actually was. I told her I was an MC-alumnus and we ended up talking about my university and PR.

What was so special about this conversation was that we were able to connect although we live on different sides of the world, have never met in person and did not know eachother's backgrounds. Yet we talked about topics that were mutually interesting to us in the same language.

Thanks to the digital revolution for making this possible and thanks to Suzy for a lovely conversation.