I'd like to take today and declare my own special Independence Day. Yes in America there's a wave of pride crashing across the nation, and the stars and stripes are flying smartly in the sky, people are planning get-togethers and grills are heating up, while hotdogs and hamburgers crisp above smoldering coals. Ice cold beers will clink together as family and friends salute each other in honor of America's "birthday". Fireworks will burst above in the night sky, the ooh's and ahhs will fill the baseball fields and the finale will be deafening and awesome.
I will not be there. I will miss the experience of summer with my family and making another holiday memory...however, today is still an Independence Day for me. I'm in China, living in an apartment, working at a hotel and slowly exploring a place and world completely foreign to me. True, I rely on the hotel for boarding, my parents for pecuniary support and friends for finding places to eat and shop...but this is the farthest and officially the longest I've ever been away from home.
Sadly no fireworks will mark my grand step into the world, nor will there be much hullabaloo about it. I just wanted to put this out there into the void. Each time I think about my perspective of the world, myself and just how and where I fit in I feel my eyes open a little wider. How small and young I am.
Wow! Who called in Debbie Downer? Wah Wah.
With that said, when you get a chance, raise your glass, beer, water bottle, or juice box, I'll raise mine, and we'll salute the day together.
Happy Independence Day, America!
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