Every now and then you might find yourself doing a double-take when you see a person who looks completely out of place in the setting they're currently occupying. It's not like I'm going to suggest that certain people can't go certain places, but seeing something like this is just very visually jarring.
When I was in college, I would sometimes spot an adult student on his way to or from class with his laptop case. That by itself isn't the weird part. The weird part was that he was a Buddhist monk. And I know this because he was wearing the traditional orange-and-yellow monk robes and sandals and his head was shaved.
Obviously Buddhist monks are totally entitled to an education--there are probably a lot of perks of having someone with a degree at the temple, I'm sure--and nothing about their beliefs or their religious obligations says they can't use technology or go to school or anything. But surrounded on all sides by typical college students, seeing him never failed to feel really weird. Sometimes I felt like asking him if he was lost. He just looked so out of place.
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