Don't judge me by
my slanted eyes...
Me: I always wonder why I was born angry…
Him: You were not born angry, you were born strong.
Let me introduce myself. I am a human being just like you and everyone else. As obvious as that statement might sound, believe it or not, it took me a while to realize it. For the first years of my life I thought I was not suppose to be born and that my existence was a complete mistake. It seemed that everything around me was a reason to be bothered, upset and continually frustrated. I was never able to conform to what I was told “reality” was, the expectations of my Asian/Latino culture, senseless traditions, oblivious silences and so on... With the desire to be like everyone else and once for all be “normal” I lived my life in a constant struggle to discover why I was always a rebellious girl, seeking an unexplainable freedom.
Him: You were not born angry, you were born strong.
Let me introduce myself. I am a human being just like you and everyone else. As obvious as that statement might sound, believe it or not, it took me a while to realize it. For the first years of my life I thought I was not suppose to be born and that my existence was a complete mistake. It seemed that everything around me was a reason to be bothered, upset and continually frustrated. I was never able to conform to what I was told “reality” was, the expectations of my Asian/Latino culture, senseless traditions, oblivious silences and so on... With the desire to be like everyone else and once for all be “normal” I lived my life in a constant struggle to discover why I was always a rebellious girl, seeking an unexplainable freedom.
An exploration to the South and North American continent was a life changing experience, a step towards a higher discovery of the meaning of life, the roots of my struggles. A step into the unknown, Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia followed to challenge me even more and to push me to another level of understanding that what I hated all of my life about myself was not a curse, but a gift. A gift of frustration for the injustices in this world that are the result of the upside down system we live in and to find the possible solutions to make this place a better world. I was made for this struggle. I was made to care and speak up my frustration and awaken the sleeping souls, to give hope to the hopeless or even to discourage the comfortable fatalist.
This is who I am; a traveler with no residence, an undercover gypsy, an unpublished writer, an unknown artist, a lonely soul, a frustrated spirit; born and grown strong to dismantle all the lies I was fed. Don't judge me from my slanted eyes, the Asian stereotype because I won't submit to senseless traditions, I wont be silent if you are corrupted. I am who I am and this is the journey that has wore me down, but has given me the light to see, the ears to hear, the words to speak and a life to live.
Follow me in my experience of becoming human again.
Simply ME.