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How to make my passion become work when my country has categorized my passion as useless BB Call?
Taiwan is such a small country. Our population is even less than in California, a state of America. Therefore, a minor change from the people in control. It will be a week-long breaking news and become social norms.
Though small and unrecognized as a country globally, we still have a corrupt enough government to “donate” citizens’ taxes soaked in tear and sweat to under-developed countries to treat us a country, then China raises a chin a bit, Taiwanese news, again and again, blames xx countries betrayal.
People in power in this small country are no different to a leader of a tribe. They can easily arouse citizens’ ambition for being a Taiwanese using different spelling and traditional Chinese. As the presidential election counts down, candidates start to exclaim that only a strong economy can sustain Taiwan, being a country’s name.
Politics- poly means many, and tic(k)s are the annoying bugs. No matter which candidate I support, he still has some proposals that make me disheartened, and eradicating humanity department is the main cause.
He delivered a speech in a top 2 university in Taiwan and responded a student who asked, “How will you resolve the issues of low salary for graduate students?” He said, “Demolish all the departments that only “produce” low salary graduate student. Every department in university should have the same purpose- teach the students to have the social demanding skills of making decent money.”
The reaction was immediate and supportive. Many universities combined together to have enough students to afford the professors. This year, a university, which is well-known for its journalism major, terminated Mandarin Literature Major because no one registered.
To improve my writing and literary senses, I called to a university which I just took some English Literature classes last year, and the whole classroom was filled with young faces to fortunately cover my old aura. The person who answered the phone said, “…Sorry, we don’t have any English students this year, so there is no class…”
I know we don’t have creative writing programs but language learning centers, but I never expect literature, both Mandarin and English, will vanishes that swiftly and cruelty. No one even have time for a eulogy.
As a second language learner, I have to study more to write more professionally, if I’m sensitive to the issues of dying in dignity, politics, human rights, social ethics…, etc. I watched news on YouTube because whenever I click open my website, the breaking news is ‘the hottest girl on subway/in bubble tea store/in 7–11…, then these girls become famous overnight and are interviewed by reporters’ or ‘A girl accepted a surgery to become a virgin again, and her boyfriend cannot wait to ‘open the gift’’ or ‘A cheated B, and B accused A of cheating, as well’ or ‘Real picture!!! Decayed babies in an abandoned hospital in Gaza’.
How do I find a real person here, face to face, to talk about everything except selling makeup, insurance, or Herbalife? How can I share with a person who just told me, “I just used ChatGPT to write me a resume. It’s splendid!”
One encourages here, the other motivates there, but how do I expect to see a sunrise when smartphones are everywhere, reflecting and distracting? How do I share my thoughts on some news when people only listen to AI? How do I stay positive to believe I can write something when no feedback, no critiques, and no anything?
People might have friends or families, but I only had myself for my passion. Even Eminem got Proof, Dre behind his back and started having a group of creative amateur rappers in high school.
I want to change, see more, study more, interact with people more, but such kind of department is sabotaged by economic reasons.
