“Those who have seriously thought through introspection
There are so many 'obvious' things
“Only then will you taste the freedom that comes from changing your destiny into a choice.”

‘Youth’ means fresh spring with green sprouts.
But the youth of this era are too busy, too intense, and too exhausted to be fresh.
Just looking at buzzwords like "quiet resignation," "spoon class theory," and "N-po generation," we can clearly picture the faces of young people struggling to figure out how to live "truly" or "like a human being."
Even if I read a psychology book that sells well or watch a program featuring a psychiatrist, I still feel unsatisfied.
"What's wrong with me?" "Am I the only one feeling this pain?" Professor Baek So-young, who has personally experienced and heard countless concerns on various topics and of varying weight, answers.


Love, purity, family, sex, appearance, sin, personality, money, career path… … .
This book collects the stories of young people with similar concerns from the same era.
As an educator who has been teaching at a university since 2005, a mother, and an adult who has lived through that time, I offer deep empathy and comfort to readers.
As I read the book, I find myself thinking the same thoughts and experiencing the same emotions, and my nose stings and my eyes turn red.
But it doesn't stop there.
The author analyzes the bundles of life unleashed by young people through the eyes of a Christian ethicist.
This is because individual worries and suffering are intricately intertwined with not only personal problems but also social and ethical issues through a web of relationships and meanings.
The author thus pulls out the nails of 'obviousness' that have been embedded in the readers' thoughts and hearts, and presents freedom and comfort to the days of youth struggling to survive, to believe, and to love.

From a parent's perspective, if the eldest daughter or son is the first to meet, the first to spend time with, and the first to develop a special bond, and therefore the responsibility of being the eldest child is heavy, how much heavier must the burden of responsibility be for oneself? Ask yourself this.
From your perspective, who would be the first person you meet, the closest person you meet, the person you spend the longest time with, and the person you'll meet last? Yes.
It's you.
---From "Page 33, 'K's eldest daughter, life is hard'"

If you have truly loved him for the past five years, if you have willingly approached him and given to him without reservation, overcoming the calculating mind of a person who is bound to be selfish, the emotions, memories, and traces that have accumulated over the years may hurt you, but they cannot taint you.
Because purity is yours and never depends on others.

---From "Page 104, 'Am I Not Pure Anymore?'"

So your proposition is correct.
You will have to continue that war.
Not just towards my mother.
As you fight the war of meaning without running away from those who do not recognize your boundaries and seek to encompass, dominate, and manipulate you, you will ultimately bring newness to this land.
The newness that only Hyeji can create.

---From "Page 116, 'My life was a war to push my mother away'"

Living in a culture that sells self-loathing and demands "upgrades," it's hard to love yourself for who you are.
But isn't meeting someone who discovers loveliness in me as I am, someone whose unique loveliness shines through more and more with each encounter? Isn't that love? If not that kind of love, I hope you can bravely choose not to be loved.

---Page 138, from "Will I be loved more if I get plastic surgery?"

that's right.
Even I, a young child who was probably five or seven years old at the latest, knew the answer.
That it is easier to cease to exist than to live.
Anyone who has ever felt their way of living, their way of expressing themselves, has been blocked, restricted, or even invaded would have the same answer.
You probably asked me the question because you actually knew the answer.
Life is never easy.

---From "Page 155, 'Suicide seems easier than living'"