well shit. apparently i am getting old.
So New Year’s is in a week and I’ve come to realize that this is the first year I won’t get hongbao from my parents.
I’m not marking this as notable because it’s a sign that I’m growing less financially dependent on my family, because that’s frankly not the case. As bullshitty as it seems, it is NOT about the money. See, here’s one of the last Taiwanese traditions, spared from the forces of assimilation and conversion to Catholicism, that my nuclear family still participated in. And I will no longer be playing the roll of the child, here. On the 23rd, I am not going to come back from classes and find a red envelope with a note written from my mom.
I think this is the first push towards adulthood that I’ve felt and acknowledged as such, since moving to SCAD. Yes, more so than living without my parents and being in college, and even shenaniganing my way up to New Haven and Boston and hoboing for three weeks.
How long will it be, until I’ll be expected to give hongbao to a child?
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highclasstophat said:
One week.
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thecaptainsverses said:
i feel this all the time. even though i have a little under half a year left for college, i’m right there with you. it’s funny too because i have these moments that i forget i’m not twelve anymore, but like almost eighteen.
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