Thursday, May 10, 2018

Dear Mom

(in Seoul 2018 beginning my search for you)

(My first lecture at the ADS university in Vietnam, Saigon, 2018)


4/30/18
Dear Ms. Yoo,

How are you? First off I respect your privacy and if you wish to not make contact with me openly
I understand it is your life and we can keep this discrete.
I am your son Cameron Yoo Van Loos, now twenty-nine years old.
It is my honor to inform you that I am alive still and very happy, yet indeed your blood son.
And I don’t have words to describe how I feel now and have felt my entire life knowing you exist.
I can simply say that I am glad to hear that you are real.
If you are healthy and well I would like to meet and see your face for the second time in my life but as if it were the first time in my life.
I now live and work in Saigon, Vietnam at ADS Design Institute. I am a professor of Art and Design.
I also have a University degree in the arts from the USA. I am very happy and have the love and support of my friends and family.
I moved to South East Asia to discover more about my identity.
I am able to save money here for my future and develop my career in education in the arts.
See I have always felt this indescribable connection to you and have always felt your love from far away.
I really appreciate what you did for me Mom, thank you.
I was given a second chance in life and have lived my best life and still am.
Now that I am a man with a stable career and many hobbies I am having to face my deeper issues.
I am sorry for not reaching out to you earlier in my life this I do regret. It takes time to understand the differences we might have now in life as
I am now coming from the western world and you the Eastern but I will never forget where I came from beautiful Korea.
I love you and don’t have any regrets or sadness for what has been done. I will be happy to hear if you are alive and well.
I am the luckiest man alive for being given a life with everything you might have dreamed I might have.
I want to thank you so much for giving me the chance to be properly taken care of and share my love with the world.

Love,
Yoo Dong Shik

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