Last year, I wrote about all of the Korean Holidays. This year, I’m probably going to just direct you back to the original posts.

Link: Independence Movement Day

I actually had big plans for March. For some reason, I thought that I started blogging for AdoptionBlogs.com last March. It turns out that I actually started in February 2006. So, it throws my whole anniversary theme off. Time flies when you are having fun and I’ve definitely had fun writing for this blog. I’ve always enjoyed writing and I’ve always done it just for myself. There is definitely something odd about writing for other people. It takes on new complexities and shades of gray.

So, I was thinking about Independence Movement Day today and shades of gray. It’s all about Korea’s independence as a nation, but it started me thinking about individual independence. Independence is what we strive for when we are young. We look for that power that allows us to make decisions without the permission of our parents.

I’ve decided that I want to be seen as an independent nation. It seems to be human nature to try to put everyone into neatly labeled boxes. I know parents who want to label Korean adoptees as happy or unhappy. I know adoptees who think that all adoptees should be avidly against adoption or avidly pro-adoption. One of the things that I’ve learned over the past year, is that there are no neat boxes with labels. There are shades of every color imaginable. Some of us might be in the same color family, but no one is quite the same.

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