I am a Filipino-American woman. The Philippines is a country that is a melting pot of cultures, religions, languages, and ideas. My family has a lot of friends from different parts of the country. I was born and raised in the middle of all these differences. I love to explore the different cultures of my friends and loved meeting people from different parts of the country.
When I first heard about the concept of the sangathamizhan, I thought it was a sort of “bonding session” like a friend who is a mix of Filipino and Asian with a lot of Japanese and Chinese in the mix. But then I thought, “Wait a minute, that sounds kind of weird.” I’m not sure if I’ll ever get to meet a sangathamizhan, but I’d like to just try something out.
Sangathamizhan is a concept that I think is very cool. It’s sort of like a mix of the Japanese concept of yukata and the Korean concept of shikai. The concept is that the sangathamizhan does a lot of things that are very different from the average person. One of the things I love to do is to travel to different parts of the world. This takes a lot of preparation and work, but it can be really fun.
A sangathamizhan is a person who goes out to do things and then comes back changed and changed again. It’s like having an alchemist at home. You make a bottle of some kind that is special and set it aside and only open it on special days. You’re given a time and place to do it, and it’s just a matter of setting it down, waiting for the right moment, and then going out and doing it.
In Sangathamizhan, we follow the process of creating this bottle, the first step of which is a trip to the moon.
After all, it helps us get from A to B.