Waching daily Jul 2 2018

So I grew up in a conservative midwestern Asian American family, and when I came out

in my mid twenties it was not okay in my community to be gay.

I was living with my parents at the time and I had to move out.

And I was also part of a very strong faith community and they did not accept me for being

gay, and so as a result of that I lost a lot of friends, too.

So I knew I was gay from a really young age and growing up in Catholic school I had never

met a gay person, no one in my family, I had no friends who were gay.

Most of my childhood I felt really awkward putting on a Catholic school uniform, wearing

dresses.

I just tried to fit in.

I had a boyfriend, I tried to just get through it but I never allowed myself to really dream

about the future in a positive way because I just thought the future was going to be

very lonely.

When I was in college, a very close friend of mine told me that her sister was gay and

that she just had an idea of why people were gay, and that scared me.

Because I knew that she knew that I had this big secret, and when I told her I had never

felt so scared in my life.

Because I just didn't know what was going to happen and I didn't know who I was going

to be knowing that this secret was out.

I had to move to a new city and I needed to find a new community.

So I went out looking for churches that were open and accepting and I met an amazing pastor

there who told me that it was okay to be me.

That it wasn't sinful to be me.

And that really changed my life and it gave me the confidence to go out and try to find

more community.

But when I started to ask for help and started to try and find community I was blown away.

My life got so much better, I became an HIV social worker, I volunteered in the gay community.

I met people like me and the funny thing is, people liked me so much more than the fake

self that I was when I wasn't allowing myself to be my full self.

People thought I was interesting.

People thought I was unique.

People loved my ideas.

And so it just really improved my life, like a hundred percent.

When I met Jenni I really allowed myself to dream and think, my god, I can have a family.

We can have a normal life, we can be accepted.

I saw my family love her and I realized the future was very bright.

I just, I couldn't even tell you what it's like to meet somebody who just makes you so

happy.

And together we decided to go on this trip around the world because we really wanted

to find other people with stories just like ours.

Jenni and I traveled for a year and we traveled to fiftteen countries, and it was really then

when I realized we have this whole global family.

You know walking into Asia and seeing women wearing ties and going to Africa and seeing

people with faux-hawks like mine and going to South America and, you know, walking into

an LGBT center and feeling at home.

The world is a very big place, we have this great chosen family that you are a part of.

So trust me, it gets better.

You're a unique person and a very loveable person and I can't wait to see who you become.

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[me escaping my responsibilities]

fish escapes ....

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Jules Allen | Using challenges as a spring board for positive change - Duration: 1:24.

- Another thing we do in society

is we say we have good or bad experiences,

and the assumption is that the good

ones are the ones that benefit us.

That's not true.

The greatest benefit is from our bad experiences.

If you know how to use it.

I'm not saying it's pleasant to go through it at the time,

but I guarantee your biggest

adversities is your greatest gift.

If you look at the people who are changing the landscape.

Like the Branson's, the Oprah Winfrey's, Obama all of them.

They've all experienced adversity

in the first part of their lives.

They weren't given the silver spoon.

They've gone, okay this is what I've been given,

and how do I then use it?

I remember when I was on Master Chef.

One of the best things I could do

on a day off was screw up a recipe.

That was the best thing was to make a mistake.

Okay cool, I know what I've done now.

If I got it right all the way through the days off.

I knew I'd be screwed in the main kitchen.

If you want to prepare for the main stage.

May keep some mistakes and go, thank God I made those.

Except that life's not gonna be perfect, but learn from it.

I always say to people, if you're

struggling help someone else.

Once again look at Apple, Google, Branson, McDonald's.

They're all helping others.

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Retell-a-thon TBR [2018] - Duration: 7:52.

hey guys so I'm back with another video and today is going to be at my Retell-

a-thon TBR this is a brand new read-a-thon that is coming to us which the

theme of is to read retellings whether that be fairy tales, history, events in

history or other famous stories such as Sherlock Holmes this read-a-thon is

running from July 8 to July 15th and is being hosted by some of my favorite

people here on booktube which is Liv from readbyLiv Spence from common

Spence Cara from wildbookgarden Mikayla from mybookself and Lea from

Lea Bex I am so excited to get into this I own quite a few retellings that

have been sitting on my shelf for a while that I really need to get around

to and this is the perfect read-a-thon to do it for so there are five

challenges for this read-a-thon and they all obviously have to do with retellings

also you can't tell because of where my camera is that but my tank top is

actually based for this read-a-thon and it's the Sleeping Beauty tank top

but I got a hot topic like forever ago and I actually completely forgot I own

this tank top till I was home earlier this week and found it in my closet was like

that's perfect I also dug this tank top out of the

dirty laundry just so I could write for this video is that gross there are five

challenges for this read-a-thon challenge number one is love at first

sight read a retelling of your favorite fairytale and if you couldn't tell from

my tank top that Sleeping Beauty is my favorite fairytale

sleeping beauty has been my favorite princess since I was little and I've

always loved Sleeping Beauty I love it in one day I will find my prince philip

and we will sing once upon a dream because it's my favorite song from

singing Beauty I was like so much anyways obviously since Sleeping Beauty

is my favorite and I actually own quite a few Sleeping Beauty retellings that I

just haven't gotten around to reading I picked a Sleeping Beauty retelling

Andrews I'm going to be reading a wicked thing by Rhiannon Thomas I've owned this

book for a little while I think I recently hauled this one actually it is

a sleeping beauty retelling and other than that I really don't know or remember anything else

about this and so I'm super super excited to get into it because I need

Sleeping Beauty in my life and I feel like sleeping beauty is one of the fairy

tales that is just very rarely retold at least for me I've been seeing a lot of

Sleeping Beauty retellings a lot of time you know it's like Cinderella it's a lot

of Cinderella challenge number two is true love's twist read a genderbent

retelling or a lgbtqia+ retelling and for this I am kind of mixed I have two

books on my TBR it'll depend on which one I pick up because I don't own either

of them right now and for right now I'm currently reading a study in charlotte

by Brittany Cavallaro which is a gender bent Sherlock Holmes retelling and I'm

very much enjoying it so I might cuz I should be done with us on this

read-a-thon starts so I might just go ahead and pick up the last of August

which is book to you in the series or I might read it down among the sticks and

bones which is the second book and the way we're children series that deals

with two characters from the first book and it's kind of like they're prequel

novel I might pick that one up it just depends what mood I'm in when I get

next get on Amazon. Challenge number three is a faraway Kingdom read a

retelling from your heritage and I am personally a whole bunch of white I'm

not quite sure what my heritage is on my mom's side she's never really talked

about it but I know my dad side I'm German Scott Irish

I'm assume on my mom's side it's kind of the same so if you ever wonder why I

talk about burning so bad like Sun burning so bad and like always being

ghostly pale you can blame it on my Irish side

I like I've stated am part German I think if I've done the math correctly

I'm 1/16 maybe less I'm not entirely sure but I have the perfect retelling

foods I don't know if it's technically retellings I think they're technically

the originals like the original original but anyways I'm gonna do it anyways I'm

going to be reading at some of the stories out at this beautiful edition of

the Grimm's fairy tales that my dad got me forever ago for Christmas I still

have not touched this one is actually this is the Bicentennial edition this is

the 200 year edition of this and I have just not touched it it's so pretty and

it's annotated I just really need to read it if I'm correct I which I think I

am the Grimm's fairy tales were originally published in German I think I'm pretty

sure oh my god I've never seen this naked look at this naked look how pretty

that is okay anyways there are like 50 stories

in here obviously I'm not gonna try to read all of them for this read-a-thon

but I would like to read a couple like kind of breaking up between it finishing

other books for this read-a-thon and I just really need to freaking read this

really bad I've owned this for way too long and I wanted to read the Grimm's

fairy tales for way too long and I just keep putting it off so I'm finally gonna

do it challenge number four is under a spell

read the group book and the group book is The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill

this is a from what I've heard a very feminist retelling of the Little Mermaid

now I personally do not normally read group books for read-a-thons unless I am a

co-hosting or like it's an older book and I already own it but majority of the

time the books are new releases and I'm like I really don't read that many new

races oh this year I am breaking I read quite a few new releases so far but I am

making an exception to my normal rules because one some of my favorite people

on booktube obviously which are my friends are hosting this read-a-thon and two

- it's a mermaid book and I love mermaids and I have not read enough

mermaids in my life so I need to read more because I want to like make my

brand like a mermaid books cuz I own so many mermaid books but I've heard them

but I'm gonna read this one because it's mermaids and how can I not and finally

challenge number 5 is unhappily ever after read a retelling with a dark twist

whether that be unhappy ending told from the villains

point of view or just has very dark themes over all and for this one I've

actually owned this book for a while and I've been meaning to pick it up I am

going to be reading once upon a dream by Liz Braswell this is one of the books

in her retelling series so far there are three books out and they each deal with

the villain from the story and kind of think what happened if the villain had

one in the end this one is obviously a Sleeping Beauty retelling because I'm

trash for Sleeping Beauty and I've owned this for at least two years and I really

need to read it because I need to and Sleeping Beauty if you're interested in

the other two books in this series one of them I know for sure I'm not quite

sure what the titles are so I'll put a picture here but one is a Beauty and the

Beast retelling which my roommate actually does that I kind of want to

read and then the other one is an Aladdin retelling and from what I've

heard the allotted one apparently is the best in the series so far so I'm excited

to jump into these I probably if I really enjoy this I'll have to read the

other two because who doesn't want to read books about villains so that's it

for my TBR please let me know if you are joining in and retell-a-thon because i

would love to know also let me know your TBR down below in the comments or if

you've made a video please link the video because I would love to go watch

it and if you're planning on reading any of these books please let me know if you

want to buddy read anything so that's gonna be it for this video don't forget

to it like and subscribe until then I will see you guys in my next video bye