What Are You Writing About?

Someone asked me recently, "what are you writing about?"

I found myself a tad flustered and couldn’t articulate it eloquently enough in the moment.

I think I might have been surprised, that this person (whom of which I don’t know particularly well at the moment) took notice and asked me about my blog. 

I felt pretty lame when I didn’t have a well thought out response,

and considered I should probably ✲ write it out ✲

At the core of everything, I’m writing about my experience as a mixed/biracial, second generation Filipino Canadian. 

I know there’s someone out there thinking that I should be writing that the other way around, and every so often it makes me feel like a bit of an imposter.
That is a hard, complex topic that I plan to go into at a later date, but as I briefly mentioned in my first post, I am trying to “slowly remove myself from my Caucasian counterparts”. 

The “being pushed into a space I didn’t want to be in”, and by space I mean a Western ideal based on someone that wasn’t me. 

Being told I needed to stay in a lane that I don’t think was mine.

I’m writing about what it means for me to be living in a time of constant stress and questioning myself as an individual. Who I am and why I am and finally figuring this all out.

The growing up, the constant learning and mindset changes. The turmoil and the healing. The cultural take back. The things I love and enjoy.

I want to touch on all of these things. I have  seriously thought about writing a book, but of course didn’t know what to do in order for that to happen, and landed here instead. 

As life moves along and evolves, I hope I will always have something to bring to the table and share with those that care enough to listen. About me, about my culture, about what I have to do to keep it.