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| CONTEMPORARY ISSUES How Could a Dragon Become a Princess? Ua li Cas ib Tug Zaj Ho Plhis Tau Mus ua HuabTais Ntxhais Nkauj Ntxawm? There are paradoxes in life that one may not expect. Behind scary dragons, there may be hidden princesses. The painful part to make the mask fall is the process that needs time for you to come out of the closet. Long ago, I was also a young woman fearing fire and adventures. But I always wanted to become somebody else, a person full of optimism, confidence, and courage. I did not know how to do to reach such a metamorphosis. One day, I read Rainer Maria Rilk's book, "Letters to a Young Poet" where he answered a young poet's letters. The young man wanted to become a poet too. In summary, the book says: "Don't be afraid of life because [all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave]". For a period of my life, I had been questioning myself about the possible transformation of a dragon into a princess charming. Dragons are said to be ugly, extraordinarily powerful, and treacherously dangerous even if they might have wisdom. In my culture, dragons would have taught and given away to the Hmong people their wedding ceremony and chants (Zaj Tshoob) in the Ancient times, back in China. Over the years, this book, as a loyal friend, helped me to overcome my own fears, and reach the understanding of others and of myself as possible princes or princesses. Being a princess is not to have royal blood, but to love and to respect oneself with integrity while listening to one's needs. Just be who you are, and seek to make your life useful and meaningful. Hidden in a doubtful heart, there is already a prince or a princess to be. In your days full of sorrows, of torments, and of worries --because you feel that you are not what you would like to be -, tell yourself that even dragon could become a princess. Everything is possible if you put the effort, the love and the respect in your enterprise. The following paragraph will comfort you, and inspire you to find the strength and the will to follow your dream so that you will grow up or grow old into what you would like to be, a person at heart. "We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard-of, must be possible in it. That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. (...) But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished the existence of the individual (...) But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live a relation to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively from his own existence. (...) We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment of our lives are princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." Rainer Maria Rilk (German poet) : "Letters to a Young Poet." Kao-Ly Yang - April 2005 Copyrights 2005 Kao-Ly Yang All rights reserved |
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| TOPICS OF 2005 February 21, 2005 "4 sab phab ntsa": Randy Travis "4 murs" Randy Travis 4 Walls",Randy Travis March 9, 2005: Guest writer: Chris Lee Kev txo yus tus kheej txoj sia: tub ntxhais hluas kev nyuab siab Essai sur les causes de suicide chez les adolescents hmong Essay on Hmong teenagers' suicide March 27, 2005 Kho Hmoob kev tsim karaoke Critique sur le karaoke hmong Criticism on Hmong Karaoke March 28, 2005 Koom Haum Hmoob Thaib Association de développement chez les Hmong en Thailand Hmong Association for Developement in Thailand March 28. 2005 Huab tais Nplog tus Tub Xeeb Ntxwv Kev Npau Suav Les espoirts du petit-fils du roi du Laos Laotian Prince Soulivong Savang's Hope March 28, 2005 Huab Tais tus Tub xeev ntxwv ua "Phibthi" rau cov tub rog tuag La commémoration des soldats et civils mort durant la guerre secrète au Laos The Commemoration of deaths during the "Secret War" in Laos March 29, 2005 Kev toob kas noj mov zaub tseem tseem Le besoin de manger organic The need of organic food April 4, 2005 Ua li cas ib tug zaj thiaj plhis tau mus ua Huab Tais ntxhais nkauj ntxawm La peur des adolescents: comment un dragon peut-il devenir une princesse? Teenager's fear: How could a dragon become a princess? April 9, 2005: Guest writer: Paj Nyiag Xyooj Nws yog pes tsawg ne ... Hmoob tus me nqi tshoob Essai sur la problématique du prix de fiancée Voicing the Bride Price in Hmong Weddings April 25, 2005 Nkag siab rau lub neej laus nyob teb chaws vam meej Comprendre le 3ième age chez les Hmong Understanding the New Old Age in Hmong Community May 7, 2005 Txheej txheem tshawb fawb Méthodes de recherche: la contribution des recherches issues du groupe. L'expérience d'un ethnologue d'origine hmong Research Methods: the contribution of native researchers. The experiences of an Ethnologist of Hmong origin August 8, 2005 Kev thim xav txog tus nqi tshoob Critique sur le prix de fiancée Criticism on the Bride Price Sij Hawm liv xwv keeb kwm ua neej Chronologie historique des Hmong Hmong American Timeline December 18, 2005 Tus tsov: yog tsiaj los sis yog dab. Le tigre: est-ce un animal ou un mauvais esprit? The Tiger: is it an animal or a bad spirit? |