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Would it be crazy if you just stopped? Everything? Packed your bags and left?

For a week. A month. A year. What if you left for two years? Would people think you'd lost your mind?

What if you were going far away to help in a village… on the edge of the Gobi desert.

A village crowded with Buddhist temples, not skyscrapers.

A place where there isn't a word for recluse, but a thousand words for 'community.'

Would it be crazy to go 5,000 miles from home

To spend time with people the rest of the world have only read about?

To build libraries, and fill them with stories.

To prepare a meal, with food you helped grow.

To teach children, and learn a thing or two about yourself.

Would that be crazy?