Today as I reminisce, I still cannot understand how my parents made us feel like we were not poor.
Socrates once said "the secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
My father killed me and tossed me out into the streets, as something filthy and abandoned, to face the brutality of homelessness.
"You have to go to college, Bridgette, I don’t want you to end up like me."
I will always give my all in everything that I do because in the end hard work always finds its way to reward you.
In my country, Korea, it is very unusual to go to college at a later age.
Each time I visited my father, he lovingly would stress about the need to have purpose in life. During such visits, I remember him telling me about Buddha who said, “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, we cannot live without a spiritual life.”
“Relax. Stay positive. Don’t be so hard on yourself. You are living and learning. Forgive yourself and grow from the experience.”
I’ve always disliked school very deeply. I’ve always thought it was honestly never for me. After I graduated in 2018, I was so happy that it was done and over with.