If I have to read another article from some over-privileged 20-something about how travelling the world and volunteering with NPOs is going to bring me happiness, cultural understanding and “change my life” I think I’ll be sick.
Backpacking around the world, interning and volunteering for NPOs…
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” ― Meg Cabot
(Note: Princess Diaries for the win!)
“Dad, I miss you”
I want to see you
Hug you
After 3 long years
Call me selfish
But I want more than just your voice
And the glow of a computer screen
It will be my birthday and college graduation in a few days
It should be the happiest time of life
Yet I can’t stop crying
Why?
Because the US denied him a visa for the 8th time
This is not immigration, this is not illegal workers
This is my father
The man who paid for my expensive college education
Denied the 2 weeks he wants to spend with his daughter
For my graduation
For my birthday
What have I been working for?
When I was valedictorian in middle school and high school
When I got straight A’s in America’s number 1 public university
What is their worth when my dad can’t be here to be proud of me?
This land of “opportunities”
This land of broken families
It’s not enough that they denied me
From seeing my mother at age 5
It’s not enough that my parents divorced
Because love dies as the US denies
It’s not enough that after 13 years here
A citizen like me can’t experience the simple joys
Of inviting my dad into my home
Why is he denied?
Because having a wife and son
A high income job
Plus 3 properties in China
Is apparently not enough
To guarantee that he won’t refuse to leave America
As if he has anything to gain in this shitty US economy
“Why not just visit him instead?”
I would if his psychotic wife and son
Didn’t chase me away with a knife
The last 3 times I tried to visit
So I waited 3 years
For the moment when my university
Can send graduation invitations
It’s the only way to see him again
It’s the only thing his paranoid wife would allow
Too bad it’s not something the US would allow
Dear US Visa Consular
All I want is two weeks with my father
To show him my campus, go hiking, and just have dinner together
For all the family moments that some take for granted
I’ve never had any
I begged in my letter to you
To please don’t take this away from me
But you did
You took away all of my hope
I’ve never been more ashamed
To be an American
In this land of the free
I am not free
To be with my family
Not even for two weeks
So all I have left
As the tears roll down my face
Is the cold glow of my laptop
And the words
“I miss you too”
<3
Finished! :D
And here is the old unfinished version. I kind of like them both. Sketchy simplicity has its charm~
And in other news, 1000 Words is also done! Just need to wait for my publisher to look over the files and double check for typos now which means BACK TO KNITE~ :D
elegant
We Dream
This is a 10 by 15 inch Knite poster featuring Sen, Min-Min, Kai, Ling, and Fei gazing up at the star filled sky of their dreams. You can purchase the poster here.
Girl
Can’t get this girl off my mind. She seems like just the thing i need. Not trying to jump the gun though
Benefit - So Sick
If you’ve never heard of Benefit before, then you should definitely give this song a listen. This is the epitome of hip-hop in it’s purest and most organic form…true uncut raw. This song is off of Benefit’s album B.E.N.E.F.I.T., which is his only album. He famously made it with only a shitty 90s computer, a $5 mic, and a $12 sound card…hence the album cover. Many people deem the album an underground classic, but I don’t agree with this; however, I do assert that its song So Sick is without a doubt a true classic of hip-hop classics. Throughout the years I’ve listened to this song a ridiculous amount of times, and I pretty much have the lyrics memorized. Unfortunately, I don’t know what happened to Benefit. He essentially made his sudden and quick rise to the hip-hop scene in the late 90s early 2000s, and then randomly disappeared just as fast as he appeared. I’ve been trying to figure out what happened to him for years. He honestly might be dead, but I don’t know, nor does the “internet”.
Here are the lyrics. Trust me, reading these with the song will give you a deeper appreciation for how sick the lyrical content truly is.
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My Song Rating: 10 out of 10
About me
pretty new at this but i'll give it a try with a number of things i like/find enjoyable that I don't normally get to talk about...Anime, quotes, music, wallpaper pictures and backgrounds, most pictures i find appealing ect.
21 years old U.S. anything else you can ask about
