You, a woman steeped in tradition, find me utterly incomprehensible. You permitted yourself to be relegated to the sidelines. I snatched independence from the land in which I was born, a land that to this day, despite four decades of living here, remains foreign to you. I did not reject our culture so much as subtly disregard it. I slipped in my desires so skillfully that they became the thread of my being. I did not realize that in becoming myself, we would not find each other. You look at me now, and you do not know who I am.
Huma Farid is an ob/gyn by day (and by night) and an avid reader at all other free moments of her life. Find Huma on Twitter @HumaFaridMD.