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Gullible or Cautious

I've been thinking lately how life where i come from has made people so cautious with everything they do. Cautious of how they speak and how they sound when they speak. cautious of every move, every gesture, every look... Cautious of petty much everything! I've visited a friend in the Middle East a couple of years ago. We went out together. And while we left the car to enter one of the shops i tucked my handbag under the car seat. She looked at me in wonder. "What are you doing?" she asked me so innocently!! So i so confidently replied " im hiding my bag so no one would break you car window to take it or something!" Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped. "No one will do that!!" Wow... look how life has made me and how life made her! I never thought that i feel insecure where i live... but these petty things were just gestures of caution. But there where she came from... these cautious moves werent even on her mind... I loved it! But after a while i...