Dr. K

My grandmother would tell me stories about how –

This is something that like my children will never understand.

I don't even understand.

So they would run out of like sugar on the 25th of the month and they don't get more money until like later.

And there was like rationing and stuff like that in India.

And so, you know, this concept of like in my house, when you run out of sugar, you go to the store and you buy more.

Like that was just not a thing.

Like even when you went to the store, there was rationing.

So you couldn't buy more.

And so they would do things like hide sugar in certain places and just stuff like that, right?

So my dad, you know, there were eight of them that slept in like an eight foot by 10 foot thing.

And then at nighttime, like half the people would go and sleep in the stairway and things like just crazy things.

So I think especially for first generation immigrants who go to America, education was survival, right?

Right?

So if you look at the second generation, we're like, why won't you let me study art?

They don't understand like the pile of like luxury that affords them that opportunity.

So when I was like nine years old, my dad pulls me aside.

It's me and my brother.

My brother's 12.

He's like, one of y'all is going to be a doctor and one of y'all is going to be a lawyer.