A Bit About Myself:

My Name is Bridgette Gong.

I’ve spent my entire life (24 years and counting) dreaming about the many possibilities for what my life could be. When I was little, I wanted to be a professional figure skater. Then later, a pop star. Upon starting college, a journalist. Back in the day, the possibilities seemed endless.

Growing older, not so much. Like many others that came from where I did, the expectation was to get a high-paying job (take your pick from amongst about 4 different industries), and earning six figures early into adulthood—at that point, congratulations, you’ve cracked the code to life! Yay!

I quickly learned that this path would not be mine, and that life was not quite so simple. Thankfully, the little girl in me—the one that believed in all the possibility life had to offer—lived feverently on. I leaned on her heavily.  

At age 14, I woke up invigorated with another answer of who I wanted to be. This time, more realistic: an actor! So I could finally understand the sorcery at play when a couple of hours at the theatre managed to make me feel so painstakingly and beautifully alive, in ways that ordinary life rarely did. What could be more powerful than that?

It’s since been a decade. And though it looked nothing like a linear trajectory (more like a ball of tangled yarn, if anything), I always seemed to find my way back to that purpose I had discovered at age 14— my north star.

I guess she was really onto something after all.