Snowdays...What's it Like?

Today was a snowday for many people.  Many students around the world don't know what a snow day is like.  This got me thinking:

What is it like for the people that have never seen snow?  And the people that never will, in Africa for instance?

What is it like to not have a Super Bowl and everything that comes with it in your culture?  Or Christmas and Thanksgiving and all the tidings?

What is it really like for the three billion people that live on less than two dollars a day?  For the child born with AIDS?  For the refugee?  What is it really like for the woman in a Muslim country that is raped and can't recover her reputation?

What is it really like to grow up in a radical Muslim family?  Or a radical Christian family?  

What is it like for the orphan or the adopted kid?

What is it like to live alone and unloved?  To be homeless?

What does it feel like to get a life sentence?  What does it feel like after you've spent thirty years in prison?

What does it feel like to attain your life's goal?

What does the fear feel like for the soldier in his (or her) first gunfight on the battlefield? What is the feeling after a pilot drops their first bomb?

How is life as a president's child?  Or to know you're the most powerful man in the world?  To not have the right to vote every November?

Americans have a hard time identifying with others in other countries.  They have a difficult time putting themselves in another's shoes.  When everyone has such a different background and a different personality, it is easy to say why people don't get along.  But I believe that if people stopped and listened to each other for awhile alot of problems could be avoided.