believe杂文随笔

believe杂文随笔

　　This I Believe is an international organization engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. Here is mine regarding design.

　　I believe design is about love.

　　My love of design drove me all the way from the other side of the earth to here struggling to be a designer, which I might never believe before I came in. Every time I was asked how I got here, I would tell them if you have a heart for design, your voice will definitely be heard by people who care about it and appreciated by them.

　　I was incredibly lucky to be given the chance to be here, inspired and loved by the people surrounding me now. It’s you guys help me better understand love and myself. Brandon, I never told you that you were the first guy told me he loves me, including my dad. Anhe, you gave me the warmest hug in the world when I couldn’t stop crying after I broke up with my ex girlfriend. Chen, I bursted into tears when you said you would share food with me if I don’t want to cook ever, even you are always the one needs food most. It’s been a year and half but I still remember when I wasn’t able to articulate my thoughts in English for the first design project I’ve ever done, but Mel said she could understand me, even they were not sentences. As I am writing now, lots of moments pop up in my mind. I seem to see who I was when design hadn’t come in to my life. And Marty’s voice is haunting- it’s ok to make mistakes, we all did.

　　Even I’ve gained so much love from people here or there. I still buried myself in grief when it came to the lost of love. My heart was broken. I felt my passion for design was gone and the world was lack of color. I couldn’t lie to myself that I was happy so I wasn’t able to do a happy design for sadness- the design challenge from experience design. That actually forced myself to dig into my soul and pull out what’s in there. At the end of the day, I finally understood sorrow is the hidden of love. And love is a journey helps us get to the better we, even there are always ups and downs in life.

　　As a designer, I believe in design and design is about love. There are so many differences out there: colors, voices, gender, sexual orientations and religions. I believe they can all be accepted and respected as long as we have love and appreciation for each other. I believe in design is building the bridge among differences based upon love. Different perspectives are firstly deconstructed. Then design reconstructs them into a better understanding for us. Eventually, it brings inclusivity to our life and make the world a better place. This is what I believe and what I am doing.