Religion, Idendity, and So On...

         After the internship with Initiatives of Change Switzerland, two questions I was asked quite often have been stuck in my mind: "What kind of prayer do you do?" and "Why do you sound so American?".

          Spirituality, spirituality. Such a vague word to explore and explain. Being raised in a non-religious country, it is sometimes really hard for me to feel it, or to think of it. To search in my memory, the only pieces I can find are a few visits to temples with the attitude of boredom, and some books written in a language that is too old for me to bother.

          Mao thought the only way for a new China to beat the old China (that covers so many images of inhumanity and backwardness) was to completely separate the two. And there goes the Cultural Revolution. Now, the gap, the vacuum, is filled of people like me. We are the lucky ones; or we are just a bunch of lost souls.

           Looking back to our history, I see a blurred and twisted culture so far from me that is rarely possible to be found back. All the books I read that criticize the past to an extreme extent, the whole negative thing about current government and politics, and the radical prejudice of my family, make it such a painful process too.

Not finished. To Be Continued...