One Last Goodbye

Growing up, I never understood the significance of Chinese-Teochew rites and rituals, and the reasons why my family perseveres to an otherworldly manifestation of my grandfather. It was only in adolescence when I started to understand the familial ties that our/this tradition begets, and why my family still holds on to such sino-rooted beliefs. For the first time, I saw death and the afterlife as a celebration, and felt an unexplainable blood-affiliation to my family. Read more in my journal.