Friday, November 9, 2012

Are you special?

'Isn't the plane already landed, is it?' I was impatient and left my husband, who was about to park, and ran to the terminal one coming from Seoul.

Rarely people are coming out. A Korean woman next to me raised her hand and greeted the man wearing a suit. I asked if the plane from Seoul had arrived. "My husband came in first class and I am not sure." I thought, first class, will fly faster than regular class. Watching her walk away with her husband arm in arm with her husband. Oh! Isn't it the same plane!

The child, who left home to look around the world in his youthful vigor, came out belatedly with a large backpack on his shoulder, in the form of a sunburned Southeast Asian. It's the difference between comfort and discomfort. It is the same speed as first class or economy class!

My biological father was suddenly admitted to the hospital. I urgently got a ticket to Seoul and went to the airport. When I walked through a long passage to get on board I met a distant relative. I was glad meet her.

“Are you going to Seoul? Good for us. I hope we can talk together during the long trip.” "I ride first class." "Oh, yes." She said, "let's talk when we get off at the Alaska airport." "Enough then, I'll wait." She went into the first-class passage on the left. I entered the economy class on the right.

I waited for her at Alaska Airport which stopover a brief. I searched for her, but I didn't see her.

She is a distant relative who has lived poor in Korea and came to America, a dream country, and worked hard in her own business, and succeeded in her own way. I met her three or four times at a family meeting. "Are you still living there?" is her greeting, with a slight derogatory tone whenever we meet.

A long time ago, she came to my Brooklyn studio that has no heating. She was surprised to see me living then. Her memory seems to be imprinted with me shivering in a cold studio all the time.

The beginning of the United States was the beginning of the losers. When we left our homeland, we were determined to live up to our expectations in every field. However, she can't even look back on past difficulties just because her circumstances have improved a little, and she speaks out the vulgar sense.

I also would have hurt many people with my vulgar deeds and words that popped out in front of others. Given that it might have been imprinted in their heads, the joke that others pour on me might not be so angry.

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