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자기전에 잠깐
읽고 싶은 책의 출간을 기다리는 즐거움. 여름을 기대하는 마음. 이런 사소 한 것들이 삶을 만드는 것 같다. 내 자신의 기대와 기다림들을 보고 ‘내가 살아있구나, 그래도 살고있구나’ 라고 느낀다. 어떻게보면 기적이다. 이 짧고 고난 가득한 인생에서 무언가를 기대하고 바랄 수 있는건 인간의 초자연적인 힘인 것 같기도 하다. 참 아이러니 하다. 항상 두가지의 것이 공존 한다. 삶과…
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노랑 접시 안녕
내가 좋아하던 노란색 접시가 깨졌다. 정확히 말하면 전자레인지에 돌리는 와중에 ‘쩍!’ 하더니 미세하지만 꽤 큰 금이 생긴 것이다. 무척 아쉬워 하며 일단은 그릇에 담긴 음식을 먹었다. ‘아, 왜 깨졌지? 아쉽다. 참 좋아하는 그릇이었는데.. 다시 붙여서 쓸 수 있을까? 이제까지 문제 없었는데 왜 갑자기 깨진거지?’ 하면서, 우습지만 나름 심각하게 사색을 해보았다. 그러다가 조금 더 생각을 해보니…
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A rainy Tuesday afternoon
I carry my late grandad’s umbrella. It’s not the best umbrella and it’s a bit worn out, but I still like it. I don’t think he used it much—perhaps not even at all. He was a farmer, you see, in rural South Korea. A man of charisma and authority, not the kind to use an…
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Writing makes me …
When I finish writing, it all makes sense.
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The book-smart girl that is actually foolish
The girl who says all the right things like a textbook. The poor girl doesn’t know that her eyes flash doubt. Little does she know, her audience is already sickeningly familiar with the rhetoric she dogmatically regurgitates. Some of her audiences are in fact, more acquainted with that ‘textbook’ than herself. But of course, because …
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A troubled elite
From last year’s diary. A description of somebody I went on a date with. A troubled elite. Undertone of melancholy and depression. A troubled, restless mind. Longing for acceptance. Loneliness. Intelligence. Perhaps ‘brilliance’. People-pleasing and flirtatious. Too smart to be happy.
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Train
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Winter morning thoughts
Maybe I’m more attracted to your aspirations and innocent passions than to you as a person. The passions that I feel like are slipping away from me, you seem to still have a tight grasp of. So maybe I even envy you. Envy manifesting as attraction? I feel like I should know better. Maybe I’m…
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Nice and Disturbing
This lady that I knew, she was married to a man that was almost 30 years older than her. From what I heard and saw, it was a love marriage. I knew them to be childless for a few years. I figured maybe, it was their choice, because neither of them were young. I think…
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The psycho that pays all her taxes right on time
You know those people who look like they’ll pay every cent of their tax on time, have a meticulous and methodical approach to all aspects of life but then you can’t help notice a hint of psycho in their eyes? Behind all the procedures and systems there is something unhinged about them.. Love them. Absolutely…
Ilamnyuh 