Tag: Essay
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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.…
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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…
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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.
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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,…
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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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When a heartbreak looms
As I expected, a ripple of unease ran through my heart. And then I sensed that maybe later in the evening, my heart might just break. So it was Unity Books to the rescue. Joan Didion should do me good according to the shopkeeper’s diagnosis. So I took up his prescription and walked out with…
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Day 11
I really like it when you kind of pick yourself up on a rotten day and do something wholesome. You hate the cold and the lack of sun. You know you get a bit blue when it’s cold and cloudy. But I love that you do small things for yourself on those days because you…
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Day 10
자연스러움. 자연스러움에 대해서 배우고 싶다. 자연스러움을 소유 하고 싶다. 자연스러운 사람 곁에 있을때 얼마나 편안하고 즐거운지. 자연스러움은 어디서 나오는 걸까? 어떤 마음가짐에서 나오는걸까?
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Day 9
1 You are just a really wonderful person who often gets caught up in existential loneliness. You think that it’s a flaw, but it’s not your fault that it happens to you. It just happens, and that is just a fact. You enjoy observing people, though; sometimes, it’s not a voluntary choice. You notice small…
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Day 2
I guess I’m not a machine. I can’t just program myself to do things at certain times. You can’t just autopilot through your entire life. I definitely tried that. How harsh of me! I am so human (surprise, surprise). I get discouraged, I get jealous. I need pep talk, I need attention and tenderness from…
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