There's no need to rush or strive for perfection! It's okay if it doesn't shine brightly!

Everyone dreams of a happy life and runs toward the same goals: to go to a good university, to get a high-paying job at a large company, or to get promoted.
In order to live a successful life that conforms to social norms, such as a stable job, a nice car, owning a house, and social success, ordinary people run forward without even looking back to see if they are on the right path to happiness.
I want to stop, but it feels like I've already gone too far, and I don't know what my dreams and goals were, or what I really like to do, so I put my earnest heart into a picture essay, hoping that it will be a small comfort to ordinary people who are struggling with similar concerns.
Because I felt like it had to be now, and because I felt like I wouldn't have the courage to think about it anymore as time went on, one day in my last twenties, an ordinary writer who boldly quit her job and set out to find happiness, her cheerful essay, "I'll do well, anywhere," which records the small details of her daily life, has been published by Bookstory.

There is a saying, “office worker puberty,” so much so that anyone who works has probably thought about giving up everything and leaving at least once.
Especially on days when the weather is so nice and sunny, I feel like I'm the most pitiful person in the world, trapped in a boring, cogwheel-like routine.
Our daily lives are such that we want to escape, but we lack the courage to do so, so we end up just imagining them.
Our workers, burdened by the weight of the world and the bleakness of retirement without a lifelong job and no leisure, struggle to avoid working overtime even today.
Writer Myeong also had to think for five years to break free from the shackles of such an office worker.
After leaving his job, the writer Myeongjak has been living in five cities in Europe for five years, studying what he wants to do, traveling, and creating a life of his own.
Of course, she spent five years struggling and struggling with constant choices, but now she is happy.
This book began as a series on Brunch, filled with the small, everyday experiences and feelings I had while filling my days in Europe with things I truly wanted to do, and adding illustrations with the emotions that came to mind at the time.


The story of the writer Myeong reached over 700 subscribers in just three months after he started writing on Kakao Brunch, and recorded over 200,000 views. Now, over a year later, it has provided comfort and courage to about 2 million ordinary people.
To young people struggling with similar concerns somewhere in the world, the book "I'll Do Well, Wherever You Are," which contains small comforts from the writer Myeong at the end of a long journey, will give you boundless empathy and laughter as if he knows you better than anyone else, and will give you a small sense of emotion.

Looking back now, I desperately needed a valid reason and excuse to quit my job at the time, and I made up excuses and grandiose plans to make the word "quitting" sound plausible.
But honestly, there was only one reason why I quit the company.
I feel like it has to be now, right now, and if it goes any further, I won't even have the courage to think about it...
They say that there are times in life when you just want to do something for no reason, and I think that was the feeling I had at that time.
Of course, it may seem reckless and thoughtless, but if I had to go back, I would have made a similar choice.
If I had stayed at the company at that time because I couldn't leave, I might have regretted it later and wondered, 'What would have happened if I had done that?'

Wouldn't it be better to do something and then regret it, rather than regret it without even trying?
---「Chapter 1.
From "Five Years of Work, and Korea Adios! - I Quit My Job"

Actually, the purpose of this trip for me was not England, but Barcelona.
After staying in London for two days, my friend and I flew to Spain on a budget airline we had booked in advance.
In any case, traveling is a process where you have no choice but to indirectly experience local life as a 'foreigner' who stays in one place for a certain period of time and then leaves.
It may be even more exciting because there is a time and place to return.
But strangely, in Barcelona, ​​I wanted to live there at least once as if I were living there, rather than as a tourist.
Unlike my friend who was enjoying a free life in England, I was on the verge of exploding under the stress of work and the pressure and burden of a new product launch in my department.
For me, the theme of this trip was 'actively doing nothing'.
We decided to just enjoy every moment without any special plans, leaving the travel books we had bought at a bookstore before our trip safely tucked away in our bags.
With only a crumpled map and a little money in our pockets, we strolled through Barcelona as if we were just leaving home and heading to a convenience store for a quick breath of fresh air.
After leaving the accommodation and walking for about 10 minutes, Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral appeared before my eyes.
---「Chapter 1.
Five years of work experience, and Korea adios! - I want to live here at least once in my life.

As if I was being compensated for the time I had spent working as a company employee over the past few years, I spent the first three or four months of my stay in Barcelona frantically hanging out with the young, fresh-faced friends from the language school every night.
When I came home late at night, opened the door alone, and turned on the light, or when my newly become close friends left one by one after the end of the vacation, I would feel a strange sense of emptiness and loneliness all at once. But every time, I would tell myself several times that I was enjoying a freedom and happiness that anyone would envy.
The excitement and thrill I felt while traveling had at some point become a small part of my daily life.
The Sagrada Familia, which I used to gaze up at in rapture for a few minutes every time I went out for a jog, now passes by without a second thought, and I find myself fiddling with my phone without much emotion as I watch a street musician playing guitar on a street corner or a flamenco dancer dancing, sweat dripping down her body.
Everything is good, I'm so happy.
Of course I live in Barcelona, ​​the city of my dreams.
But in reality, I couldn't do that.
At that time, I was slowly falling apart between the romance I felt during the trip and reality.
I spent several nights leaning against the stone wall of an old apartment building, the chill of early winter rising, still unable to let go of my anxiety and worries about the future and my regrets and longing for the past.
---「Chapter 2.
The romance of travel becomes everyday life - From "The romance of travel becomes everyday life"

The next morning, while my friend was meeting with staff at the hotel coffee shop, I sat alone at a different table far away, drinking coffee and waiting.
Her serious expression, which I glanced at occasionally, seemed quite different from usual, and I suddenly remembered myself working at the company not long ago.
I think it was the first time.
This is how I felt after quitting my job.
Of course, there were times when memories from when I was working would come back to me, but it wasn't this empty and bitter feeling.
'Am I regretting this now?'
I don't know exactly whether it was because of the unpleasant incident at the airport the night before, the clean and stylish hotel I was staying in for the first time in a long time, or the old me that overlapped with her during the meeting.
Of course, as if nothing had happened, I thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas atmosphere that permeated Warsaw's Old Town that night.
But even now, when I think about that trip, I feel a strange sense of guilt, as if I was jealous of my friend who was moving abroad and settling down at work.
Every decision and choice leaves behind some degree of regret and regret.
That is why we must not lose even the small happiness we have gained from that choice and must keep it in our hearts.
So that you can take it out right away when feelings of regret start to creep up again.
And even if I regret the things I gave up, I will not make the mistake of ruining this moment by only chewing on them… … .
---「Chapter 3.
Just Going With The Flow - Do I Regret It?

After checking out early, we stopped by the Christmas market near the Nyhavn Canal, lined with old wooden buildings painted in pastel shades, and warmed our throats with sandwiches and warm coffee.
Unfortunately, due to the flight delay, I was unable to see the beautiful night view of Tivoli, the world's oldest theme park, but after taking a leisurely stroll through the park, which was decorated with elaborate Christmas decorations, as if I were taking a daily walk, I returned to Germany.
There are times when I just want to run away somewhere without any particular purpose.
A trip where you don't necessarily have to do something, but just being somewhere unfamiliar is good in itself, maybe like a continuation of everyday life.
And it's even better if you're with someone who's comfortable and can quickly read each other's thoughts and feelings without you having to say anything.
In our less than two days in Copenhagen, Jamie and I didn't do much, but we were already happy with what we had.

---「Chapter 4.
One dot becomes a path and creates a dream - from "It's good enough even if you don't do anything in particular"