Tomorrow, February 5, is my legal birthday. It's the date that's in my passport and it's the date I have celebrated for as long as I can remember.... It's my birthday.
It is that simple.
It was that simple.
Until last year. Last year I visited the Daegu City Hall (the city I was supposedly found in) and there, for the first time in my life, they had a piece of original, dated and stamped, information about me....but it said my birth date was February 6. I know, I know, it's only one days difference. But still! Mentally it does something to you. It does. It really does. And only people who have shared this kind of experience can fully understand me here....for one should only have one birth date, and no one should ever change your birth date. Your date and time of birth should be one of the few set things in life....but alas, for some of us it is not. Oh, and yes I also have a Lunar birthdate of January 1. This whole two-birthdays-thing is new to me. Should i be happy? Should I be sad? Quite honestly, I feel neither of those. I just feel confused/baffled/stunned to silence....
At least now I know that I don't know.
I always knew that my name, Park Soo-Mi, and my date of birth, was given to me by the Temporary Reception Home (like a short-term orphanage) in Daegu...but here is the million dollar question: Is my birthdate on February 5, or February 6, or neither of those dates? The fact is that I will probably never know.....but I am OK with not knowing.....so, happy double birthday to me....
