Good Night Tamika,

Sleep well

I have one question for you when you wake up... I believe I know the answer to the question but can't be certain. Please forgive me for my ignorance of our cultural differences, but I am trying to learn to understand you better.

I am wondering if a great part of your anxiety arises from your fear of causing your parents and family to lose face... and in turn, your loss of face. You fear bringing shame to yourself and to your family by choosing to follow your own path instead of the path your family has expected you to take...

I don't know... that was just a passing thought... I feel that I'm being rather dim-witted about seeing what lies directly before of me

It occurred to me how little we in the West understand the concept of "face"... how foreign it seems to us... and how little we understand the value that "face" has in an Asian culture...

At any rate, I'm going to go zip off into La La land for a while now...