Tag: experience

  • i have a hysteria that this is all life will give me

    i think you have done a good job at showing me you are cold and beautiful. i am reminding myself that it is not love. idolization either. godhood either. i could never let go in front of you. i could never be myself. and from there i try to warn myself that that one piece…

  • (old & distorted contortions) of love

    love must be playing favorites. i keep shying away from the light that i know is there. i just can’t have anything to do with anything i could lose. i always grapple with this incompleteness and i think i have grown to love its torments. i have always been too good at its game. love…

  • Review: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

    Overview A long time ago, when I was younger, my Japanese mother told me to read this book. At that time, it hadn’t occurred to me that this was the one thing my mother loved with her whole heart that was Chinese — but she loved this book, and even watched the movie with me, so…

  • First Entry pt. 1: Exploring the Blasian Perspective

    Here’s the thing: people love to make assumptions about other people. Everyone knows that. The lesser common knowledge about this is that we also make assumptions about ourselves, based on our past experiences and watching how we act in certain situations. We learn that we can only live in this world as our one true…