Many people didn’t know what Pakistan was. Right after 9/11, they did…
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They think it’s because of their badass demeanor, their cocky swagger, their muscle cars, and their tough reputations...
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I knew that people could look at us and know we were not from there, yet I tried desperately to fit in in this place that I called home...
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The exemplifying traits my parents had modeled left me blinded to reality. The lessons they had taught me did not extend to every member on the military base…
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Heading back home with my housemates, we would stop for tsukemen by the station - delicious yellow noodles dipped into a thick, hot broth that was ordered from a little ticket machine at the front of the store...
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The second or third day after the earthquake, I sat in my apartment and realized the training my family and I did in Germany was no different from the onboard aircraft evacuation training I went through over the years. "Take nothing that will slow you down. Run, run far and don't look back..."
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I easily adapted to the parts of her culture that were were new to me; I ate squid for the first time out of her lunch box and nodded with interest when she introduced me to weird-looking creatures she loved — the first Pokemon!
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One ‘wedding success’ metric - and an indicator of societal-actualization - is how many events you can throw. Rather than having a single event (fewer events would require fewer hours of mental strain – which reach levels akin to that of interrogation methods utilized by intelligentsia), you have events in multiples of 3 or 4...
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