Marionette.
I used to think that I am just like any other girl, that I am an ordinary part of our family. I used to think that living as an eldest daughter of a conservative asian family is normal. I thought it was normal to be forced to behave, to tend to my younger siblings, to work at home after school, to study until I can't, to give up my dreams to choose what the family already chose for me, and to always do better than my best; all because it's how it should be.
It was a cycle, but it ends with me.
They say because I was the eldest I was supposed to be the heiress of the empire my family has made. An empire of successful people who brings pride to our family's name, an empire of people who has more than they need, an empire with people living their dreams; but even if I can't see the greatness they see in this empire, I still need to live like them. Just like how I should.
I am the heiress of the cycle, and it ends with me.
There will no longer be rules to be followed, there will no longer be members of the family who will be binded in a profession chosen for them, there will no longer be members of the family forced to be whole after getting shattered to pieces. I should be the last member of this empire full of marionettes, so it could end with me.
I am the heiress of this empire, but I refuse to hold the strings.
This is how it should have been.
