First post. An introduction. Welcome to the gates of BoogieCity.
I am Junior at New York University. More of that to come. I am a journalism major-although upon first glance you would probably wouldn't guess that. I don't care enough about the responsbility as much as I do about the people that I get to meet.
It's currently 3 in the morning in lovely yet dreadful Piscataway, NJ but I like to think that we can all exist in another place that we choose, hence BoogieCity. That's where I am most of the time.
I am Chinese-American but as of late I think I could switch the order of those two nationalities and it would be hard for me to really know the difference. I spent a semester in beautiful Shanghai, China. I am studying Chinese in school otherwise I won't graduate, but I'm starting to enjoy it because my professor is inspirational and good-natured. He calls me by my given Chinese name, which no one does. Not my grandparents, not my family's friends, not any of the people I met in China, and not even the people who gave me this name-my parents. At 21 years old I've taken on this new yet old name and started wearing it as part of my persona. Zi Xuan sounds a lot more romantic and heroic than Alan. At 21 years of age I've slowly had to get used to being called another name that I wasn't even sure how to pronounce up until 6 months ago. To me, a new yet old name, is like a jacket that you bought say 5 season ago but has been put away in your attic the entire time. You forget why you have it, how you got it, where you got it from, but it's neat and it's a step into a previous life, or in my case, one that I never bothered to live out. So I suppose in that regard, it's not a jacket that's been packed away due to non-usage; it's more like a sweater that an aunt got you, and although there's nothing wrong with it, you just never really needed it. Maybe I'm pondering too hard, but there's just something about being this old and deciding to take on the legacy, as you , of a name. Live up to prophetic words or maybe just to honor something/someone.
So yeah, I'm as of now going to go by my Chinese name and try to fill in the character that goes with it. At this age it just feels good to have another dimension to a complex life to escape to when things get tough. I promise the writing will get better and more meaningful.
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