06.24.08
East Meets West Synchronization
East Meets West Synchronization
The year was 1964 was when I realized that I was going far away and may never come back to my home again. That was the first shock of my life and it woke me up to reality. NO-THING was forever. For the first seven and half years of I lived in Hong Kong. Everything I read, saw, and wrote was in Chinese (Cantonese) and written in characters. Then the next shock came when I immigrated to San Francisco. I did not understand any English. So for the next seven years, all I learned and spoke was American English. During middle school, I studied three years of Spanish. In high school, I studied three years of Mandarin. So by the time I was seventeen years of age, I had studied four different languages. My personal opinion is that, from the order I learned the languages, naturally activated both sides of my brain in symmetry.
The next shock was two years later when our family moved out of Chinatown and into the Excelsior. There were only a hand full of Chinese students in my grade and none of them spoke Chinese. It was quite an adjustment from mostly all Chinese to none in my class. Two years later, I began middle school and had to change schools again. I had one close friend each grade, but I spend a lot a time alone thinking and asking questions to myself. After school I would go up to McLaren Park and sat in the mountains by myself. Nature was a calming place for to be. I could hear the cars from far away. I talked to myself in deep thought. Mentally I would gaze into the future, plan out situations, and saw how things came together.
I had always seen and thought about things in a different way than most people. I felt I was misunderstood but at the same time I wanted to be different from everyone else. I wanted to be myself and live life the way it was designed for me. I enjoy going with the flow. Every time I forced things, it just did not work out as planned. At an early age, I understood the Tao, but was still a lost soul. I did not know why my life was the way it was. I was nine years old.
