Are you living well? When life feels uncertain.
I feel like I'm alone, even on lonely days
I hope you're happy, every now and then.

"It's all about me, isn't it?" Intimate stories, like a secret diary in a drawer.

"There are times like that, right?" is the story of Kim Je-dong and me, our story.
Everyone has a story buried deep in their hearts! You don't know what's causing you anxiety, but it's unexplainable. You work yourself to the point of exhaustion, but you don't know if you're living well. You love your family, but you want to run away when you see them. You get stabbed in the back by your lover or friend. Not a single day is easy. Life feels like a real struggle. Those are the days.
Stories that resonate with us all, taking place in different times and places.

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There are times like that, right?

There are times like that.
I want to say and write something.
'no way.
it's okay.
I guess it's just me.
When you think, 'Life is like that for everyone.'
“Are you the only one?
When you want to say 'let's not say anything' for fear of hearing things like "That's how everyone lives."
I feel like I'd feel better if I went somewhere and cried alone, but when I actually try to cry, tears just don't come out.
When you try to make excuses like, “It’s not like that every day.”
Here's another one like that.
Just add it.
---From "When I'm Worried That I'm the Only One Who's Weird"

Now I think all my feelings are valid.
Sadness is not a bad emotion, it's sad for a reason.
So we have to respect that sad feeling.
---From "You are always right!"

I thought that when I turned 40, I would become mature and an adult.
But nothing much changed.
I'm still curious about the opposite sex, and I'm still confused and scared about life.

'You'll understand life when you're forty.'
Now I understand a little bit how presumptuous all these thoughts were.
---From "I am now independent from my mother"

There is no one in this world who adapts perfectly to a breakup.
I think that after a breakup, everyone has a hard time forgetting that person and lives in fear of getting hurt.
It's similar.
People may be travelers who are in the process of adapting to separation until they die.

---“There is no such thing as a way to overcome a breakup.
From "You should cry on days when you have to cry"

If I had a father, I would want to do that for him.
Making the soles of my shoes soft and fluffy, handing out a ten-thousand won note on my way to work and saying, “Whatever you have for lunch today, don’t eat regular, but have a ‘special’ or ‘special’ lunch,” and preparing a simple meal of sundae and a bottle of soju for my father who comes home late from work – these are the things I want to do the most.

---From "My dream is to be a father"

When my mother asked me when I would get married, I asked if it was up to me to decide, and she said that as a woman herself, she understood how women feel.
What does that mean? Are we family?
---“I will do it like this.
From "If you do it, if you do it"

When I appeared on MBC's "100 Minute Debate," I started getting labeled a "political entertainer."
The person who hired me at that time was anchor Son Seok-hee.
I went out with the thought, 'I should appear but not say anything.'
But when I went out, I saw that it was my seat, opposite me was Representative Na Kyung-won, attorney Jeon Won-cheok, and next to me was the late Shin Hae-cheol, former Minister Yoo Si-min, and Professor Jin Jung-kwon.
At that time, anchor Son Seok-hee speaks.
“Let me introduce you to these people.” Ah, the moment I said ‘these people,’ it was decided.
---From "People here, because of that one word"

I am the host holding the microphone.
Even if it weren't for former President Roh Moo-hyun, I would have gone with the same mindset.
I thought it was polite to send off the deceased.

We should celebrate good times together and mourn sad times together, but I think we should be together more when there are sad times than when there are good times.
I thought that saying goodbye on the way home was the way to live like a true human being.
That's right.
That's all.

---From "That's All"

When you are walking down a dark street and someone is trying to do something wrong and you yell at them, even if there are lights on in the windows of the houses in the neighborhood, that person will run away.
almost.
They say that even if you don't directly come out and fight, saying "What's going on?", just letting people know that someone is watching and that there are people here significantly reduces the likelihood of a crime occurring.

Ultimately, isn't reducing the risks and anxiety in our society about turning on a light when someone walks a dark path and asks for help, letting them know that someone is there? That thought struck me.

---From "I hope tomorrow will be like this"