![By Viviane Sassen](https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/globe-world_F3BLO7N7WB1.jpg)
On the first day of preschool I am drawn to the same question. While other kids ran towards the blocks & kitchenette, I beelined to the globe in the corner of the room.
My mom tells this story when I call home & get quiet towards the end. She says my four-year-old hand caressed that plastic world & beheld its cerulean tilt & spin: if nobody can live here, then why does it exist?