All the dreams he shared with me, paying my tuition fee and giving me hope in life, were gone. My future became bleak...

“Good life is expensive. There is a cheaper one, but it’s not life,” my parents used to say. It might not sound literally correct, but...

One might think that may have become an obstacle for me; luckily, that has not, or not yet. Coming from a community where majority of the...

Even though my parents got divorced when I was in kindergarten, they ended on such good terms that there was not too much struggle for me...

You don’t always get what you want, unless you find a way to it. Sometimes that means you grab your courage, get out of your comfort zone...

Sometimes being yourself is not easy, not at all. It took quite a while for me to be open with myself, to admit that I was attracted to...

I was the youngest of the three children in a middle-class family. It was a loving and cheerful setting. Adding to the happiness was that...

All my life, I have always wanted to help others. I have seen persecution, racism, and blind hatred for those who are different or deemed...

I was always worried about finding the right person for me. I was scared I would never meet my soulmate or I would miss my chance with...

I don’t want to hide who I am. I have never been ashamed of what I was, or how I wanted to live my life. The only thing I have ever been...

Is the American Dream dead? It seems such a cliché sometimes to even talk about it. Many have a cynical outlook on it. Maybe it depends...

My family is everything to me. I don’t know how to describe our relationship as anything other than that. My whole life, they have always...

I think it can be easy to lose parts of yourself as you get older. There is never a break in the bustle of work and family life, so you...

The revolutions started a few years later, leading to the collapse of the Soviet empire and the rise of the Russian Federation. The early...

Everyone has lived a life of his own, a life that you may never know. I have owned and operated a Chinese restaurant in the United States...

I have always felt like I am chasing something. I could never really explain what it is. I just have this feeling that I am after...

I grew up as a child of the world. Nowhere was home because for nearly my entire childhood, everywhere was home. My parents’ work kept...

There are times in life when we must choose whether we hold on to hate, or forgive and forget. Holding on to hate is the more common...