one of those epiphanies...

I reflect on my life of contradictions - maybe those things have been the central tensions in my life, that's forcing me, compelling me to feel so much...

I'm an English-proficient kid born to parents who hardly speak it...

A Christian in a family of traditionalists...

An extreme possessor of books in a pragmatic family that does not appreciate knowledge for its own sake.

I embrace the future, but aware of the past, stuck in the never-present, drifting between parents who can't comprehend the present, but still I hurtle towayds the present.

In an academic programme, full of students coming from the affluent edges of society, whereas I'm in contrast, a cultural simpeton, hardly knowing, barely appreciating, not understanding their affluent, sophisticated world.

And so, in between worlds, I find myself.