The world is BIG

I have come to realize since I arrived at BYU that the world is very big. Huge. It has been around for a very long time, and a great deal of knowledge has accumulated in the minds of its inhabitants since it was first created. As a misguided youth, I falsely assumed that the limits of my own intelligence were also the limits of the rest of the world's intelligence. Now I am beginning to see that for each quirky social rule that we follow, there is a name and hundreds of years of observance applied to that rule. For each psychological process we unknowingly partake in, there are scientists that have been watching our minds long enough to know we participate in the process. For every hardship we must face, there are probably a hundred people that have endured the same trial and come out all right. Suddenly, the world just got a lot bigger, but it isn't scary. They are all people like me. This is what I have learned from college so far.