A friend once told me about the difficulty of getting parents to support your passion for the arts. I believe this anti-arts deal is something that many parents go through, but in my experience is especially true among Asian American families.
He said “You have to prove to them that you want it”.
Of course any parent would want the best for their child and does not want to let their kid starve.
His parents began turning around the day his father was reading the Chinese newspaper and noticed that his son was in it.
“Did you know you were in the paper?”
“What? No let me see!”
That was when his father began to realize his son would be okay, not ten years after finishing college but well worth the wait.
And that, my friends, was the best advice I’ve gotten thus far in 2010.
