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brittanybalduf 's review for:
Real Americans
by Rachel Khong
4.5 stars
"So much of my life I have let slip by, because I have not attended to it. All this while, instead of seeking more time, I could have been paying attention. I notice it now, my present: my grandson’s kind face, his warm hand in mine, and the smell and sensation—here the words, in any language, fail—of being alive. Chinese is a language that exists in the present tense. In this way, it is unlike English, a language in which it is easy to say: I had a past, I will have a future. When I adopted English as my own I lived so much in the hope of what was to come."
"So much of my life I have let slip by, because I have not attended to it. All this while, instead of seeking more time, I could have been paying attention. I notice it now, my present: my grandson’s kind face, his warm hand in mine, and the smell and sensation—here the words, in any language, fail—of being alive. Chinese is a language that exists in the present tense. In this way, it is unlike English, a language in which it is easy to say: I had a past, I will have a future. When I adopted English as my own I lived so much in the hope of what was to come."