A KING’S CHILD IS A KING AGAIN, A Pagoda’s SON IS TO Sweep Banyan Leaves
Is the folk song predicting the future “THE KING’S CHILD IS A KING AGAIN, THE Pagoda’s Pagoda Sweeping Banyan Leaves” true for all cases? And how do “strays” like me overcome their fate? 1. MY PREVIOUS LIFE I still remember when I first came to America, every morning my sister and I would walk to the bus stop to go to school, whether it was sunny, rainy or snowstormed. Sitting on the bus and looking through the window, I saw my friends being picked up by their parents. Sometimes I felt a little sad, but thinking back, my mother had to go to work early, so she couldn’t pick me up. Time passed, one day I shared with a teacher that I wanted to enroll in college. The teacher asked me a few questions and then said, “You’re already late. You should have done this by now.” At that time
