I didn't celebrate Christmas with my family today, I celebrated it with my "other" family -- my Filipino family. Two years ago, back when I was living in Canada, I met a Filipino (Skittles) and his family was very quick to adopt me into their family. They took me to Disneyland to celebrate the holiday that for years I had hated and so it only seemed fitting to celebrate it with them again today. They've always been super supportive of me with what I'm doing and now more of them have "adopted" me into the family because now I know many of them in the Philippines.
Skittles' immediate family lives here in Canada but there's about a zillion of them in the Philippines.
I know me spending my Christmas with them as oppose to my birth family is going to raise eyebrows and get me judged, get me talked about and put me in the bad books, but I'm honestly okay with that. I've come to accept the fact that I may never fit the good books of my family and may never really do what they wish I'd do, but I also know this is my life and I need to do more for me and less for others. If that makes me selfish, fine, throw that label on me. I don't think it's selfish to regard your own happiness as a priority.
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