Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top. -Maxime Lagacé
“How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

**LIFE IS HARD, BUT KEEP MOVING!

Happy

Let me ask u one thing what u think about bl 

LGBTQ

Is it fine distancing people you behaved good with, when they want to get a close up of your life and you don't want to someone to explore your  past shits

3am Thoughts

In the end, 
We all are just pawns in god's game who sacrifice themselves to make two destined lovers meet.

This is the reality.

I'm normally here giving advice but this time, I need advice.

My Story: I spent 18 years in the US. In a city where at that time, the majority ethnicity was black. I wasn't treated nicely by some of the folks there because I was a minority. It never reached the level of being racially profiled by the police but it was by my peers, a handful of times by teachers and even a manager. I was socially nurtured to hold the belief that if your discrimination did not go to the level of systemically being profiled (by the police) then your experience did not matter.

So I move to the UK - tired of living in such a divided country. I also wanted to shield my husband from that sort of abuse so I moved abroad.

Cue the pandemic.

A few weeks after being in lockdown, one of my managers in my office messages me. Asking me how I'm coping with the Quarantine- especially me being a BAME (Black And Minority Ethnicity). My first response to that was: Wut? I'm a BAME? Huh. I started thinking about that. Yes. Perhaps I am. I'm half Japanese and half White and I'm an US citizen. I guess I am a minority here in the UK.  

This idea, never occurred to me. Why? Because I grew up being told that my experiences did not matter.

Cue in the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement. Here we go again, right? I look at their website- it just talks about yet again  the systemic racism against Black people and NO ONE else. Do I think this struggle exists? Absolutely. Do I think it could be done differently? You're darn right.

Cue in today:

Some of my work colleagues created a Microsoft Teams group called BAME Staff Discussion. Two are Afrikaans. One is from Barbados, one is from the UK but is half black, half white and the other is Indian and then me. But they're discussing BLM & the inequality that they've experienced. And what happens with me? I feel shame. I feel like a fraud. I feel shame because I cannot voice MY experience of being discriminated against by black people because I was taught by American society that my experiences don't matter. I feel shame because I was discriminated against by an employer who was from India. He paid me less for not being from the country he and the other staff were from. So, this shame; the one I've carried for 30 years rises up in my heart, my throat. And it makes me feel like a fraud. A fake BAME. 

Do I come clean with them and hope that they don't invalidate my experiences? Or do I continue to stay quiet?

Thank you for reading.

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