The Joy Luck Club

Tonight my Chinese teacher showed the Joy Luck Club as part of the international movies that are shown each semester. There is a saying at the top of the movie poster that "Between every mother and daughter there is a story that must be told". I think often many stories are not passed down from one to another for many reasons. The sad part is that if it is not pasted on, there is an emptiness that remains. Every relationship between mother and daughter had a component that I could relate to my own life. Not so much with just my mother but with my overall relationship with my close and extended families. Each relationship explored during the movie has brought me to a point in which I am at that fork in the road again. Stay to the right and keep going and doing as I am or hang a left and become the person I want to be and get from this life what I want. I know I am worthy...I am taking the left.