A Glimpse of the Past!

    After reading The Best We Could Do, it left me with many thoughts. Such as how water can be an escape, but also your greatest enemy, or how what your parents PARENTS did were related to the metaphor of tree roots, and many more ideas. But one thing really stuck to me, it was the fact that my parents had a life before becoming my mom and dad, my Ma and Ba. As a child, my parents never really told me any stories from their past. Other than the one where my Dad would chase after my Mom until he married her of course. But as i've gotten older, more and more parts of their past have been revealed to me. Just like how Thi Bui as an adult got to hear stories from Bo and his childhood. My parents lived very interesting lives, things that I couldn't have even thought of. Like how in Vietnam my mom used to be the manager at our family tape factory, or the fact that my grandparents used to own their own pottery store!

    Back in 2017, I got the chance to look at a glimpse of my Mom's past. I got to see her childhood home that she grew up in, and it was so cool to see how there were some neighbors that even recognized her. They got to see my mom as a kid, not the adult who has to pay taxes, buy groceries, and doing big girl stuff, but a child who swam in the lake, and ran around causing chaos with her siblings. I hope as I get older, I can learn more and more of my parents past!