Insider? Outsider?

Experiences of displacement and belonging are almost familiar to everyone and the few who are presumed to have not experienced it since they have not yet been able to realize it. On a personal level, it is convincing that deep down in everyone’s heart, there is that version of revelation that tells how it feels to be displaced or belonging somewhere. Displacement for this matter can be sensed in exceptional cases of people not feeling okay with them. The fact that there is something that people see as the obstacle to be at ease with their hearts is a significant factor to show that displacement can occur even to the extent of between oneself . Movement is, therefore, an explanation of the circular models through which people remind themselves of the renewability, linearity and the sustainability of their hearts regarding existence.

Progress concerning linearity is the dominant culture that people focus on when it comes to the pace of belonging somewhere, even to the extent of been determined by the peace in their heart. What this demonstrates is that migrants go through a lot of difficulties since they are those people who leave their homes and every other cultural setting that they belong to and from that time rely on their experiences and suffering to set up a new staring of life in another different cultural context. What is correct about the skills as a migrant is that there is a strange start since everything is different from what they are used to in their old life. What I am going to tell you all is the conflict that I perspnally went through as a psychologic analyst that came from a foreign country and lived with a double-consciousness for 27 years.

Been a migrant to the united states of America since 1990, my literature tells of the endless lessons that I encountered throughout the journey to restoring myself through the different cultural settings which were unfamiliar and unwelcoming from my old settings. The experiences I had as a migrant imply all the sufferings that have been of interest to every literary study. It is essential that as a migrant, though it might be the hardest thing to do, we should share the transpersonal experiences since through this, many people especially the migrants who are not familiar or strong enough to go through what we went through, to gain strength and focus on settling their mind and hearts. I feel that what we experience as migrants is a state-specific element that should be shared to bring consciousness to the other people and help them out. It is challenging that the description that the challenging journey gives us is an essential focus of the kind of challenges that we believe in as migrants.

 Personally, I pulled from my ancestral roots of heritage and found in the settling on earth as my birthplace and home and then belonged to the world. What I mean is that this should be the motive of migrants and the displaced and this should be the real reason to believe that there is a home where we all belong as migrants, and that is here on earth. What it is that belonging and displacement have in common is the true glimpse of how hard it is that many people find it been a history since they have not experienced it. From my story, thousands and millions of people can relate to the mystery of displacement and belonging. My transpersonal experiences stretch to the most significant relief that every migrant and people displaced have when it comes to an understanding the intellectual and analysis of the sensitivity of communities and belonging to a place.

My transpersonal experiences can never or are indeed not a divorce of the sacred life that I managed to deal with as a displaced person, but they are a message of hope and a great help to another person going through the same issues. The relief that we experience as displaced people after we are in cooperated with some belonging and understanding of others in our new life is a clear evidence of what it is that we go through. Self-determination and feeling of responsibility should be the objective of experiencing what we experience, and it should be through our voice that we provide hope for any other person who does experience the adoption of belonging to this world.

All in all, it is to my testimony that at no point is it acceptable that any person who finds themselves in situations like mine to give or surrender to the mystery of thoughts that there is no hope since the earth is our home and we belong here. Exclusion of the fact that we are all sons and daughters of the land should be a case of consideration, and the purposes of belonging should serve as an approach of how we rewrite our lives and a platform to share our existence and journey through our transpersonal experiences. Now that we have put all my stories on the table, please kindly give me your advices Doctor.

A poem is like a mysterious lock forged by its writer. Yet it can be unlocked by many if sincere interpretations are provided as keys by the readers of the poem.  Therefore, I believe it is the readers that grant a poem power more than its poet. Poems sometimes are not meant by their writers to be published or shared, but they are often filled with the poets’ feelings at a time. Interpretations, then, can be much more powerful for a reader and its entire audience to comprehend  deeper understandings. For example in Emily Dickinson’s poem 764, the very first line says, “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun “. Knowing that Miss Dickinson spent most of her life within walls of her ancestral house and her poems unpublished in her lifetime, she must often have felt the eagerness to explore the world outside her perimeters when she wrote so many about journeys and adventures. She might have only put down her sentiments at that time, but to us, as readers, our understandings of her poems gives more possibilities to interpret her work.

To discuss the difference between these two literary devices, we must, first, know their uses in the texts. Though satire and parody have a similar intention, which is to criticize an abuse, a false belief, and a vice, etc. Parody is a composition that mimics and imitates the style of another composition. It is usually used to make a ironic or sarcastic approach to a sensitive or outlandish subject. The first example that came to my mind is a 2014 movie called <<The Inteview>>. This movie is a good example of parody. It took comic approach to criticize the severe social and governmental diseases in North Korea. The film stars Rogen and James Franco as journalists who set up an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. The film is also heavily inspired by a Vice documentary which was shot in 2012. Satire, on the other hand, uses irony and exaggeration to expose vices and shortcomings of an entity, be it an individual or a complex and interdependent system such as our society. Humor might be part of it, but the end result is almost never funny. It is used to elicit thinking and realization in the audience. A good example I know would be the Saturday Night Live series. This series of TV shows often use its unique and farcical screenplays to criticize weekly news.