Thank you for your support! My face is turning red and I rarely know what to say to compliments like these.
I am grateful that people are spending the time to read my messages, I understand they are often too long, and perhaps not the most effective way of communication in a busy web forum like Chief Delphi.
I am grateful because these messages are very important to me, not because I can look good in front of you guys (
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Being an immigrant to the United States is not exactly easy. Being an immigrant who constantly face new worlds in just about every direction, be it cultural, academic, economical, professional, philosophical, and literature, is even less easy. At times I've found myself feeling lonely, lonely because my experience is so unique, my interest diverse and exclusive, and my point of view different among all those surrounds me.
But then I realized in the middle of all that is different and strange, I find people who share similar things with me. The passion for FIRST, for knowledge, for the world, and for the people. It brings me great joy to discover no matter how different people are, we always share or have something in common with. What brings me great relief is that when I picked up a book about giants like Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison, I discover aspect of myself in common with theirs, not because it makes me feel like a giant, but because it makes these giants more like human beings.
I don't know what it is the current culture is supposed to teach us about ourselves. I have no interest in pop culture, and find it difficult to relate to it with people around me. We have all these walls around us that shield our true self from the rest of the world, and the rest of the world from us. We are so narrow in our focus it is no longer easy to share our mind with others.
I don’t know what we lost, or how we lost them that made us who we are today. All I know is I want to write to break through these walls and try to share a part of me with the rest of the world, and hopefully, the rest of the world with me.
I am forever grateful to those who give my writings the time, patience, tolerance, indulgence, and understanding. The world is suddenly not so lonely anymore.