{"text":"I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask \u0026 I thought “wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan” afterwards on a break I approached her \u0026 asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? \u0026 then she said “in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather \u0026 you don’t want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do” wow! That's a lesson I will never forget.","author":"Pablo","tags":["compassion","empathy","inspirational","lessons","motivational","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","winter","wisdom"],"id":1352,"author_id":"Pablo"}