Min Yi Su

When I was seven years old, my cousin told me she took ballet and showed me all the cool things she could do. I went to my mother that very day and asked her if I could take ballet too. She told me quite firmly that we didn’t have money for it. And that was that.

I was so confused, why would the world offer itself to my cousin but not to me? I had many dreams as a child that I kept secret in fear that they too would be dashed. Playing the piano or traveling to see different lands, to name a few.

A couple of years later, I discovered on PBS, there were exercise shows. I started watching them and participating, aerobics, jazzercise, yoga, etc. I was interested in health magazines that showed yoga poses and studied them. The next time I saw my cousin, I was able to do the splits and one handed cartwheels.

I learned something really important very young. If there is something I love, I will find a way to it.

In college, I took ballet, piano and I did visit many foreign lands on my own dime. I found a way. (Once, I went to Hawaii with nothing but a bag of gold coins. But that story will be for another time.)

As a mother now, I have more than what I had as a child and the new challenge is how can I raise my children so they appreciate the luxuries that they do have and not take them for granted?

There are a few things I do (and I often share in my workshops through Heart Grown Family), but for today, I’m going to play the piano.