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CATHY SONG LOST SISTER
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Tell a story about a girl and her family; talk about ‘old times’ when you ‘believed’ really well.
Back then it didn’t matter if I accept religion and tradition or not. Truth be told, I didn’t have a choice but I never had any other options to pick from even if I wanted otherwise. Holidays like Passover and Sukkot, Shabbat dinners every Friday and shul on Saturday mornings. I would say all the prayers too. My father made sure that I knew the history and meaning behind all things Judiasm. That’s just the way it was and back then I was fine with that. BACK THEN. As time passed and I grew and changed it seemed like tradition was
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At first, I questioned myself and this religion. I wondered why I had to fast. I understood the historic and “religious” meaning behind the holiday, but I didn’t understand why I had to take part in it. It didn’t make me feel any closer to “the universe in which guides us”, or G-d. Feeling my stomach grumbling wasn’t teaching me any lessons. But to my father it was most important to keep this holiday. But my stomach growled louder and louder, and then.. I broke the fast. It was then that I realized I was my own excluder. I didn’t fit in because I said I didn’t agree. But I finally became comfortable and simply agreed to disagree. All this time I thought religion wasn’t catching me, but it was I who was running away from it. Self-exclusion, in a way, helped me self-heal. “The Lost Sister” by Cathy Song describes the lives of two generations of Chinese women. One which chooses to leave China and begin a new life in America and another which chooses to remain in China and keep the traditions, customs, and original culture as their forever lifestyle.
“And the daughters were