In this blog post, I will be responding to the podcast What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang) by giving my opinion on Lulu's family lying to their mother. Also I will be writing about a time in my own life when I had to lie to protect someone or tell the truth.
Personally I disagree with the family’s decision to not tell Nainai. Not because I don’t agree with the premise of the lie, but that in the reading some interesting facts were given. To begin it was revealed that Lulu had a grandfather, Yeye, who died of liver cancer when she was 10. The Wang’s also kept Yeye’s diagnosis a secret, only for him to find out through his wife Nainai on his death bed. Also in 2007, Nainai was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a mastectomy performed and wore a prosthetic breast, and didn’t tell her entire family all so they wouldn’t worry. If the Wang’s really believe that their lie played a part in Nainais miraculous recovery, then why didn’t that same lie save Yeye? How come when Nainai was made aware of breast cancer diagnosis, she didn’t die? The point I’m trying to make is to me, Nainai sounds like a very strong woman who has managed to beat two different types of cancer by the grace of god, not by a lie. Back when I was a senior in high school I was addicted to Xanax. I started off just taking some at parties, but as time went on I became dependent on them. I was using before school, at home, etc. None of my family or friends knew exactly what was wrong but something was up. I started drinking while using and I’d go into these deep black outs. So one night I left this party in a complete black out and to keep a long story short I ended up breaking into someone’s home and passing out in their living room. I came to the next day not knowing where I was, or what had happened the night before. According to police the home owner found me and dialed 911. I spent that whole night in a holding cell into the morning. I called my mom, and when she got to the station she couldn’t believe what had happened. She knew I drank but she had no idea that I was also on drugs. So on the way home I told her the truth that it wasn’t just the alcohol that I’ve been on drugs, specially Xanax, and cocaine. She started to cry, which honestly made me cry because I felt so ashamed. So after a long discussion with my parents they sent me to a rehab in Lima, PA. I did my 28 days and came out of it with a whole new perspective on life; I feel that if I didn’t tell the whole truth, I probably wouldn’t be here today.
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Sabatino
2/13/2018 08:34:01 am
Your argumentative and narrative responses illustrate critical thinking and thoughtful content.
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Jen
2/13/2018 03:49:09 pm
I give you a lot of credit talking so openly about your addiction. I'm happy to see you got on the right path and are doing so much better for yourself! I'm sure you're mom is super proud of you!! :) You also had some great insight on LuLu's family decision to keep quiet about the diagnosis.
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Andrew Barone
2/20/2018 01:53:54 pm
Sorry for the delay, but yes and I have other things I'd like to get off my chest I'm kinf of sorting that all out now.
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Andrew
2/20/2018 01:56:17 pm
Thank you Jen! I really appreciate that it's been a long road so I think my mom's pretty burned out to this point lol. But I really liked your insight too there was alot of things in your post I agreed with completely especially the wedding incident.
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Andrew Barone
Through this blog, I will be providing readings and research from my English Composistion l class that reflect my life choices and personality.
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