Do not love half lovers - by Ashley Zhang
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Are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
Caspar David Friedrich, The Tree of Crows (1822) Dear friend, For as long as I can remember, my life has been a tug-of-war between dueling desires. Growing up, my parents — both engineers by trade — would warn of my demise if I did not study something “practical”: computer science, finance, business, medicine, law. Over dinner, they’d ask my younger brother, only half in jest, whether he would take me in if I became a broke writer, with nothing to my name but a mouth full of witticisms and a heart full of unrealized dreams. For years, I tried to mold myself in the image of others’ ideals.…
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