Make it Happen

A poem about taking action and doing things I'm afraid of

The right moment doesn’t come

I create it

The right time is never here

I make it

I don’t get the chance

I invent it

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People say I’m lucky

To be so young

To have seen so much

To smile so easily

To make so many connections

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But this joy I feel, I chose it

And you can choose it too

My first time on a plane, I was 18

Alone and unsure

Embarrassed at security

Afraid they’d see how out of place I felt

TSA even pulled me aside

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But I made it through

Eventually, I got the hang of it

And it opened so many doors

New places, people, and passions

There’s a first time for everything

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Fear is part of the process

Fear means it’s new

Fear means it matters

Fear doesn’t mean to stop

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I used to be afraid of everything

Now I’m only afraid of some things

And that’s progress

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For a long time, I avoided posting online. Part of it was privacy, and part of it was fear of judgment. But over time, I realized that staying quiet started to conflict with another part of me which has many things to say ( if you know me irl you know how much of a yapper I am) , create, and share with the world.

Most of my recent online presence has lived behind foodie Instagram posts or faceless 小红书 uploads, but recently I’ve been trying to show up more openly and intentionally online. I’m proud of the things I create, and I want to start sharing pieces of that journey with the people around me like friends, family, future collaborators, employers, and anyone who happens to connect with it.

So this space will be a casual collection of projects, ideas, reflections, lessons, creative experiments, and small moments from life along the way.

Cheers to turning a new leaf!

And to start: enjoy this photo of me getting 采耳 (traditional ear cleaning). I was terrified at first, but after they pulled what can only be described as a prehistoric earwax rock out of my ear, I have to admit… it was absolutely worth it.