Cambodia, 26th Dec 2014
My dear brother,
I’m writing this note to you from Cambodia, the city of
temples and monasteries. It is beautiful and untouched, yet ridden with poverty
and sadness. Maybe it was just me.
I am sad. Travelling with a Caucasian reminded me how much
it sucks to be a colored-Asian man. I am second class citizen in Western
countries. I am second class citizen right at home in Asia. That, is my truth.
I told my friends the other day “Happy ever after do not
happen to people like me”. What is people like me, I wonder? Someone who is
kind, generous, with integrity. Someone who is not traditionally beautiful.
Happiness is meant for beautiful people…
I hope your life will turn out better. I hope you’d belong.
I hope for a world in your next generation where who you are, what you do
matters more than a Facebook profile and a series of one-night-stands.
I wish happiness ever after for you. Because it is never for
losers like me…
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