No. 2

Why do we live our lives when we know we're going to fail in society? We are here at an exact time at an exact place. We've always wanted to be something else. Doesn't everyone dream of having the status of being successful like the Vanderbilts or being the grandchild of a Rockefeller? Doesn't anyone want their roots to be embedded in society? I've always dreamed of the undaunting success that one day I may have, but I know I won't have. I'm Chinese and that seems to be a gift in the melting pot of America, but in theory no Chinese person has ever made it's mark significantly in society. We're hard workers, the majority of us and we have money, the majority of us. What does it really take to be the "It" person. It's charisima and all that, but can't possess something that is hidden that makes people say, oh it's THAT person.

Today, I was done filing out the application for college and went to go photocopy them. Some schools ask what religion to you belong to. Well, naturally my grandmother was Buddhist and we always visited our ancestors in the temples in Vancouver BC and went to the depths of China to pay our respects. I've read some of the works from Buddhism and I feel that most of the statements are right. My parents tell me that I should put none because then if I put Buddhist on some Lutheran school, they won't even look at my application. I'm trying to tell them they accept people based on merit not their religion. It's just a church-affiliated school am I correct? So, I was forced to lose this battle. I can't really understand why they don't call themselves Buddhists either because they are by family and what are they going to do when they die? What, just let the body decay there because they don't belong to a religion.

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