The Other Side of Perspective

THE OTHER SIDE
I think it’s important to look back on all of our lives and think of the wonderful people who changed us, and taught us, and gave us extraordinary perspectives, almost entirely for the better. This is purely a guess, but I suspect many of us will admit the most surprising benefits and broader horizons were often, not from those shallow spaces we grew up with or would have expected, but from people and places far away that we did not expect.
In 1994, I walked into the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC thinking I had no shot at a job opening for a writer-editor position working for a country I really didn’t know that much about.
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