When people conform to trends, fall into stereotypes and accept being labelled, their own unique identity is slowly lost as it transforms into another person’s identity. However this identity doesn’t belong to the borrower and it never truly will.

A person’s experience is unique to that person only. Your thoughts, emotions, family upbringing, morals, experience, are all exclusive to you and you only. These things shape your identity and who you are, and you should never lose it or trade it for something that was never yours to begin with.

Huang Zi Tao and Huang Mei Xuan are siblings, Zi Tao is older than Mei Xuan by 5 years, so he has always been a protective brotherly figure for Mei Xuan. She has always admired him and tried to follow in his footsteps. However, when their whole family had to move from China, Qingdao to South Korea, Seoul, things changed…

“Each snowflake is different from the rest, no snowflake is the exact same as another. And you’re like my little snowflake, you shouldn’t have to be like the rest. Why bother? The beauty of people is that we are all unique, we may have our similarities, but we also have our differences. We should be proud of our differences no matter what because it sets us apart from others, it makes us special. More importantly, we have our own identity that we can call our own. Just be yourself, because everyone else is already taken, Mei.”- Zi Tao.