... but friends make secrets.
Trevor Noah's book, Born A Crime, is a very upbeat and interesting read, a look into what the apartheid life of South Africa looked like, and especially a peering into what parenting was like.
Trevor grew up in a world where he fit in to neither side of the oppression. The oppressors saw him as the oppressed and the oppressed saw him as the oppressor. He was part of the ultimate segregated group of people that had no choice but to suck it up. Fortunately, Trevor saw the bright side of the situations and he pulled himself up to embrace his unique community standing.
Yet, his life wasn't sunshine and rainbows just because he thought of it that way. In fact, he had many worries and issues growing up. He knew of this father, but he never really KNEW his father. He got time with his father and enjoyed the company, but he never had the chance to really love him completely. Even as a grown adult, when he went looking to figure out about his father, his father would not break down the walls and let him in. Blaming it on culture and ethnicity was really just the attempt to keep his nose out of the personal affairs, yet Trevor still believes his father is a good guy. And for Trevor's sake, I'm hoping he is. But his father was absent, and his father's life was secretive and confusing because it never mixed in well with Trevor's.
Again, his life wasn't sunshine and rainbows. He may have had a very independent mother, but a woman needs a companion more than just her children sometimes, especially since she did not seek to live with her mother and the rest of her family. Her mother grew up with separated/divorced parents as well, and although she tried to provide a better life for Trevor than she herself had, she still wasn't giving him a father. Able may have come along, but Trevor never had a stable father.
Trevor's mother was his best friend because she was the only one that really could be. She was the one that understood him the most and spent the most time with him. He hardly knew his real father, his step father was a jerk, and the people on the side of the street wanted nothing to do with him because he came from the illegal love affair of a white man and a black woman. He was never able to fit in and he never really wanted to, but these facts were isolating.
Secrets don't make friends, and Trevor knew that.
Comments: Hailey & Leanne
Trevor Noah's book, Born A Crime, is a very upbeat and interesting read, a look into what the apartheid life of South Africa looked like, and especially a peering into what parenting was like.
Trevor grew up in a world where he fit in to neither side of the oppression. The oppressors saw him as the oppressed and the oppressed saw him as the oppressor. He was part of the ultimate segregated group of people that had no choice but to suck it up. Fortunately, Trevor saw the bright side of the situations and he pulled himself up to embrace his unique community standing.
Yet, his life wasn't sunshine and rainbows just because he thought of it that way. In fact, he had many worries and issues growing up. He knew of this father, but he never really KNEW his father. He got time with his father and enjoyed the company, but he never had the chance to really love him completely. Even as a grown adult, when he went looking to figure out about his father, his father would not break down the walls and let him in. Blaming it on culture and ethnicity was really just the attempt to keep his nose out of the personal affairs, yet Trevor still believes his father is a good guy. And for Trevor's sake, I'm hoping he is. But his father was absent, and his father's life was secretive and confusing because it never mixed in well with Trevor's.
Again, his life wasn't sunshine and rainbows. He may have had a very independent mother, but a woman needs a companion more than just her children sometimes, especially since she did not seek to live with her mother and the rest of her family. Her mother grew up with separated/divorced parents as well, and although she tried to provide a better life for Trevor than she herself had, she still wasn't giving him a father. Able may have come along, but Trevor never had a stable father.
Trevor's mother was his best friend because she was the only one that really could be. She was the one that understood him the most and spent the most time with him. He hardly knew his real father, his step father was a jerk, and the people on the side of the street wanted nothing to do with him because he came from the illegal love affair of a white man and a black woman. He was never able to fit in and he never really wanted to, but these facts were isolating.
Secrets don't make friends, and Trevor knew that.
Comments: Hailey & Leanne
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