Hi guys it's Wengie here.
Welcome back to my channel and today
is a.. *guitar starts* heart to heart and a real talk with you guys
because I actually don't do enough of that on this channel, I do weekly advice videos on my
vlog channel where I share a lot of my life and even cried in one of my last one's with you guys
and that was intense.
I was even too scared to put that up.
and one of you guys asked me to let people know,
because they didn't know, I had the vlog and advice channel.
But today, I just wanted to do a heart to heart with you guys,
so you guys can know me a little better.
And I just wanna say before I start this video. I have no intention of gaining any sympathy for this video
i'm not sharing this story because I feel like I was in the worse of circumstances
not at all..,
am still incredibly lucky
The reason why I wanted to make this video is, I wanna show you guys you shouldn't be limited, by any circumstance.
that you were born in
I think about being born into certain families,
countries or situations - is you actually have no choice about that.
It is given to you;
But it doesn't mean, that it should limit you.
That is the point of today's video.
If you kind of sense any other, intention other than that,
I'm really sorry. It was unintended,
I just really wanted to share this story with you guys.
The things that you guys, that you probably don't know is..
My family wasn't actually that well off
We were, first generation immigrants
In Australia,
And that meant that my..
Parents came here incredibly poor
Now my dad came to Australia, as a refugee
As part of the Tienanmen Square Massacre
And that was the only way, he was able to leave the country
And he had to make that difficult decision, to come to Australia,
versus having a more comfortable life in China.
Because all his family was there.
He had to take out a loan, to come to Australia,
At the age of 35, not knowing any English
Learning it from scratch, and then doing a PHD. So..
I am really respectful
For what he has achieved and it was really great lesson for me as well
To learn from him, he basically while living on 7 dollars a week
He washed dishes, to earn money and ate the leftovers there because he could not afford to eat - food I guess.. to go out and buy food.
So he was really lucky, that he got through that period,
with a very, very little amount of money,
but he kind of did that for his family.
Me and my Mom.
Then he was able to bring my mom over, and I was left in china with my grandparents.
And I was there 'til I was four,
I remember coming to Australia, when I was four and my parents told me that
I cried when I saw them, because I had been away from my parents for so long.
That I actually I didn't recognize them
and I was holding onto my grandpa, who was the one brought me to Melbourne, in Australia
And I didn't wanna leave him and didn't wanna go with my parents
Because I didn't know who they were, they were strangers too me.
That was an interesting experience, I don't quite remember it
My mom who was actually an university graduate
had too become a cleaner
and would clean during the night, because that was the only job she could get
and I remember my Dad picking her up
Really, really late and I would sleepily go with him in the car
Because I didn't want to be left alone, to pickup from her all nightshifts
of cleaning
My parents worked alot, so I spent alot of time by myself at home
They worked because we needed to pay, for our rent
and I remember everything that we had
was mainly second-hand
our vacuum cleaner was picked up from the side of the road
and my Dad just kind of fixed it,
and we just used that for the next
like - fifteen years; alot of the stuff I got, was from garage sales
I hardly ever had new toys
I remember one time I had new toys was I when I was five,
and I got like a, 8 dollar transformer set from K-mart and that was the highlight of my childhood
A lot of my toys from stuff that I would make
So I would take tennis balls, make them into dolls
By myself and that forced me to be creative
So I was really glad, that I had that experience.
I didn't really have a lot money to spend on toys.
But yeah; I was really happy with that
childhood, because it made me creative.
I think that's, the reason why I have such a big imagination now,
Because I didn't have any toys to play with,
so I literally had to rely on my imagination
and things to create games and stuff to entertain myself.
That is one awesome thing that came from that
My parents both found jobs in Sydney; that paid a little better
So we moved here
and one really important lesson my parents taught me is you can come from nothing,
and actually create a good life for yourself
and now my Dad has paid back all the debt
Now owns his own home now, I'm so proud of him.
It's really given me a really good
perspective on... what I could achieve,
although I wasn't born in an incredibly affluent family
and you know I didn't get a lot of luxuries
that a lot of other kids get because we moved to a more affluent city in Sydney
I was surrounded by kids that came from really well-off families
It's easy too start comparing yourself
with them and you know they are getting like mini coopers for their sixteenth birthday
It can get really hard living in that society, when your parents are not that well-off
But it's definitely given me a lot more responsibility
I looked after myself a lot - I learnt to cook.
Just want to tell you guys, no matter what kind of family you are born into
or what social class
or whatever,
Don't let that stop you,
there are always creative ways that you can attain, what you need too attain
Its very easy to start thinking.. "you know they got it so easy because money makes money"
or" they got it easy because of connections", or whatever
and I wish I could go to whichever class to get better at this, but my parents can't afford it
I mean there are lots of great ways on the internet that you can learn things now
I don't think that's any issue at all
So, YEAH, whatever dreams, that you have guys
Seriously don't let your "birth-right" limit you
just let it like, just grow you
Because of the way my family is; I'm actually
a lot more resilient, I work a lot harder, i'm a lot more creative than a
lot of people that I know that were born into affluent families
Because they never had the circumstances where they had to practice that..
So that's one thing, you have on them.
and if you were born in an affluent family, then you have great benefits that you can use to it's full potential
and you should do that, because you are incredibly lucky.
If you guys want more advice videos like this, I actually encourage you to join my vlog channel,
Because, I do that on relationships
on motivation, on career choices, on school themes,
if that's something that you are interested in
We could have a weekly chat there and maybe we could get to know each other a little bit more
So let me know down below if you enjoyed this kind of chit-chatty kind of video
give it a thumbs up if you do and I will do more of these,
But otherwise have a great week
I love you guys SO SO SO SO much
and I will be back in a 3 days with a normal video