What exactly is a good life?
What awaits at the end of 'adulthood'?

I decided to become an adult without a plan in a life without answers.
The cheerful and lively life adventures of a 20-year veteran advertising company CEO.

I thought that when I became an adult, something special would happen.
I thought that a stable job, a happy family, and a prosperous life awaited me, if not a comfortable life in an apartment overlooking the Han River.
For that life, I worked while others played and rested.
I ran forward, looking only ahead, believing that a comfortable life would unfold beyond the hill.
But when I actually became an adult, I realized that there was no such thing as a comfortable life.

Could it be that I worked like an ant, mortgaging my hopes for a success that didn't even exist, and ended up becoming an adult in an ant pit?
Is this why I became an adult? After countless questions, the author suddenly realizes.
If adults are responsible for their own lives, why not try being an adult without solutions, in a life without answers? "If you regret not having fun, and if you regret having fun, then let's have fun and regret it."

When others were playing and resting, I worked and worked again.
But what is this? Now that I'm an adult, I realize there's no such thing as a peaceful life.
Isn't my life still lost and wandering?
What kind of wealth and honor have I been living so diligently for?
So I decided.
Since it's come to this, let's start having fun properly!

The world of adults is the same.
I climbed and climbed, thinking that a brilliant life would be at the top of that mountain, but there was a signpost left there.
'This is not the mountain.
You were wrong!' Adult reality is not made up of fantasy and dreams alone.

There is no need to pretend to have gone down a road you have never been on.
We are adults enough without that.

We just bump into ourselves, hurt ourselves, get hurt, and realize things and become adults.
It would have been nice if it had been perfect.
I wish I hadn't regretted it.
I wish I had been a little wiser back then.
I would have been happier.
I would have been more free.
If that had been the case, my life might have been different.
Oh! That might really be true.
But life is something that cannot be turned back.
There is no if.

Life is full of mistakes anyway.
But if that mistake changes direction, another life unfolds.
It's not a mistake, it's another life, another tango.
Yes, that's right.
Everyone makes mistakes.
That's life.

Rather than in your teens, you should develop your own tastes more in your 20s, and rather than in your 20s, you should develop your own tastes more in your 30s, 40s, and 50s.
I hope that by accumulating the experiences of living, traveling, and exploring the world, I will become someone who is full of a fragrance that cannot be hidden even if I try to hide it.
I would either like or dislike my more affluent tastes to be my fragrance.
You'll know once you try it.
This is surprisingly difficult.

“You too, live your life doing what you want to do.” I really like this saying.
right.
Of course, an adult's life is one where you live doing what you want to do.
You say that's a full stomach? No, it's not.
It is not about how much money you have, how rich you are, how poor you are, how old you are, or how young you are.
It's about my own responsibility for my life, my duty to live happily.

Even if there is nothing exciting going on, if you keep having fun, you will really get excited.
Don't worry about tomorrow, just live in this moment! Just play faithfully in this very moment.
So what if I fail? So what if I lose? Just enjoy this moment, this day, given to you.

In life, every moment is a decision.
I thought that when I got older and became an adult, I would be able to make decisions easily, like slurping down cold noodles on a hot summer day.
Of course not.
Being an adult isn't all that great.
Decisions are not age-sensitive.

Don't know how to play? Of course not.
Because you've never had a proper time in your life! I'm not saying to pour, drink, and have a blast.
I'm trying to do what I've always wanted to do.
Listen to music, draw, play an instrument, travel alone, read books, exercise, become a YouTuber, or write.
The idea is to create a true self, not a background for the company.
I think this is the only way to find and protect myself, not as a team leader or manager of some company, someone's husband or wife, or someone's mother or father.

Happiness, after all, is about these seemingly insignificant moments layered together to enrich life.
Maybe not every day can be as sparkling as a birthday, but maybe we can live happily even in the fragments of everyday life.
So, just for today, please congratulate me.
Adult-like, cheerful.

I thought that when I became an adult, I would become something special.
I knew the world wouldn't be free.
So isn't that why you were trying to become an adult in a hurry?
I mean, I wasn't just fixated on what would happen.
But in reality, the world of adults is quieter than you might think.
It's just a repetition of those same days.
That's how all adults in the world live in the present.
Say it's okay.
It doesn't have to be something you've achieved.
After all, life is a series of imperfect days that eventually build up to create a perfect time.

We know that youth is eternal.
I know I won't age.
But someday, life and living become retro.
Right here, right now, I go to work every morning, organize my life every night, and live each day like that.
No matter what anyone says, this is also today's youth.
So it's okay.
It's okay if it's old.
It's okay if it's old.

--- From the text