stepphenwolf

I am from purses, from Pink and pedicures.  I am from the trips to dance lessons. (Sweaty, painful, they weren’t just about pretty hair and makeup.) I am from the “We can do it!” the 11 by 14 poster whose message I live by   with everything I do. I’m from bedazzled bows and uniforms,           from Twisters and Worlds. I’m from the 3 hour practices           and the days off, from “Don’t get mad, get better.” I’m from Friday night’s games           with blue and red poms poms           and the National Anthem. I’m from SaiGon pho and rice. From the English as second language classes           to Vietnamese-English dictionary, the family I left for a brighter future. There’s a dusty album not fully...

An episode in my life describing a move to another place was when my family and I moved from Vietnam to the United States.  My mom wanted my sister and I to have a better education and more opportunities. I was really sad when I had to leave my dad, his family, my school and my friends. I was a new advent at my new school. I was really lonely then but after I made my new friends. The neighborhood we moved in has a friendly ambience. I was an itinerant because my family has moved to different places many times. I went to four elementary schools total. I had good friends there and felt sad to leave them. Cà Na  6 grade

In general everybody love to be free. It's sometimes so wonderful that no one around ties us with responsibilities or bothers us by their presence. But why are people still tied together by marriage or just living together? That's because we need each each other so much. "It is rare to find people who actually like to be single and want to stay that way. What one finds more frequently are men and women who say they adore being single but who spend most of their nonworking time looking for some kind of sexual or romantic attachment"...(Suzanne Gordon - Lonely in America) A human being is not a rock or a piece of wood. All of us, each one has a brain, a heart and a soul. We all know how the feeling of happiness and sadness is, when sharing and being shared is .... We feel how loneliness is ... Especially when we are lonely, that's the time we really need someone maybe just for a hug or a touch. I sometimes really want to be alone. That is the time I...