peitience is a virtue

The magnificent speaker for TAF’s Youth program was John Lin. One day he had us write down the names of the chapters of our life, if it was to be a book. Below is what I wrote down. To be honest, this was actually the rewrite. 

PART I: 

Birth - 3rd
4th - 5th (The Divorce) 
6th-8th 
Silver and Blue Through and Through
From Taipei to Kenting

PART II: 

Fighting Illini
Taiwanese American
Asian American
The Big Picture

PART III:

TASC
DAD
End of Childhood
TAF

 I think it’s interesting to see how/why I named certain chapters what I did. “Birth-3rd” and “6th-8th” were just years of my life where nothing super significant happened. I didn’t feel the need for each year to have its own chapter, thus they were lumped together and given a generic name. Other years seemed to have a theme to them. Like “Fighting Illini” which was my freshman year at college, or “Asian American”, which was when I turned my focus onto the Asian American community. In Part III, I put all the biggest moments of my life. The memories and experiences that have helped shape me to who I am today and will influence who I will be in the future.