Would they listen?

 The beach will always remain a prominent scene of my childhood as the countless hours I spent there will be forever cherished. However, after a full day of building, swimming, and burning, I never truly felt satisfied until the sun’s arch began its descent into the sea. It was only then I was able to wade out as far as I could without drowning and scream my grandmother’s name at the top of my lungs. The true bliss I felt in the momentary belief that she could hear me across the ocean from her three-hundred-square-foot
apartment in Seoul, South Korea was the kind of joy that only the childish desires of youth can bring. Throughout my countless years of primary public school education, history class was always the one that fascinated me. How we came to know of cultures’ seemingly infinite existences was a concept I could never truly wrap my head around. How do all of these drastically different lifestyles understand each other’s heritage so harmoniously? Perhaps it’s the root discernment of all humans, or maybe the fundamental empathetic nature we are born with. Anthropology is a field I’ve always wanted to delve deeper into and a career in the field of social science would help awaken my future voice and discoveries to the open—my personal ocean call to the world.