The World Ends With You

"... The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they’ll go."

-- Mr. H, The World Ends With You

"... the world ends with me. To expand my world, I have to learn to look farther--not write off other people’s values as inferior.
... Maybe I had it backwards. Maybe I need to open up to really enjoy..."

-- Neku Sakuraba, The World Ends With You

Everyone has different perceptions of the world (not only in terms of philosophy, psychology says so too!), and thus "the world" is different for every individual. Or a more accurate way to put it might be that we are all living in different worlds. In our individual worlds.

When people meet, their worlds and ideologies clash. Sometimes people open up to one another, allowing their different worlds to partially merge, and causing change to their own worlds. Sometimes when two worlds are simply too foreign, they just close up and reject each other. It may not be due to people "writing off other people's values as inferior", it might be more of people drawing boundaries of their worlds, to close off their worlds from other "unwanted elements" from other worlds.

There is no right or wrong to drawing boundaries I guess. In fact all worlds have their own boundaries, limited by the individual's values, ideas and personal experience. But, in order to really grow as an individual, although it is possible to expand one's world just by oneself, the potential of growth simply cannot be compared to exposing one to another's world. But... let's just be selective about which worlds to open our own worlds to, shall we?