Tag: daily

  • 너를 보면

    너를 보면

    매일 너를 바라보고 있자니모습이 바뀌어가끔은 바다처럼어느날은 하늘처럼위로 찾아 고갤들면흐린날 회색에 이어하늘 따라 하늘색 넘어언제는 표현 못 할 미지의 색너는 투명하지 않았던가?너의 수 많은 모습들이나를 경이와 두려움 사이에 놓아내려가 너를 손에 담으면너는 시치미 떼듯 내 손바닥만 비치겠지하지만 약오르지 않아나는 멈출 생각이 없어계속 변한다해도영원히 형상을 숨긴다해도너는 모든 것을 수용하고그 진실을 투영시켜네가 알고 싶어서너를 들여다 보면내가 보여너를 통해서만…

  • A good life?

    A good life?

    A good life is one where memories of great moments outweigh the painful memories. Pain is inevitable but it is not inevitable that everyday is painful. I love life. I complain about how hard it is but I do love it in truth. I complain about how people are cruel but I do love them…

  • by faith, not sight

    by faith, not sight

    It is incredibly difficult to operate on faith. It is hard to live by faith not by sight. My entire life was managed by and built on what can be seen and measured; my abilities, the outcomes of my actions, the data which supports one course of action over another etc. My motivation and discipline…

  • Sound of life

    Sound of life

    I live in an apartment in the city. I know a lot of people and families live in the apartment but it’s curious how I don’t run into people that often in the corridors. For the most part, the walk from my place to the elevator is a very quiet and dull one. I have…

  • 그런 날

    그런 날

    오늘은 그런날 이에요. 내가 얼마나 참고 포기하고 있는지 생색 내고 싶은 날이랄까? 당신은 나를 위해 목숨까지 포기했지만, 난 고작 이런것들에 힘들었다고 투정해요. 오늘 하루 그랬어요. 충분히 하고 싶었고, 그리고 할 수 있었는데, 안하기로 한 것들이 막 생각나는거 있죠. 아쉽기도 하고, 손해 보는것 같기도 하고. 이것도 지나면 다 잘 했다고 생각하겠죠. 근데 투정부리고 싶네요 오늘은.

  • Do you suffer from ungratefulness? Go and sit at a hospital for an hour and be cured!

    Do you suffer from ungratefulness? Go and sit at a hospital for an hour and be cured!

    There is nothing like sitting at a hospital reception to resolve your first-world-problem-type complaints. I was sitting in one this morning. I felt so humble and grateful for all that I do have despite sometimes feeling like I need ‘more’. There were a lot of people there, most of them middle age plus or elderly.…

  • If you love them,

    If you love them,

    When she spoke about what happened, I felt obliged to listen though it breaks my heart every time. That is the burden that I have to bear. My animal brain would rather avoid pain at all costs but to listen to her story and feel its pain was my duty and a way to unburden…

  • A little bit of you

    A little bit of you

    Do you ever miss a wonderful person you have never known? Then you remember seeing them time to time behind different faces. Sometimes your heart jolts of excitement, at other times it aches. Either way you are in awe. But even sunlight costs you. Anything brilliant and amazing has a price.

  • How about a compliment?

    How about a compliment?

    Last year on a wet and cold winter evening at a wine bar, a waitress told me I was “very pretty”. Putting aside whether I am indeed “very pretty” under objective beauty standards, and the fact that it seems now to be a taboo to comment on one’s appearances even if in a positive light,…

  • A rainy Tuesday afternoon

    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…