Not big or flashy, but small but resonant
A record of books and movies collected over eight years

Writer Han Su-hee has been steadily collecting the lives of people who are slightly lacking in some way, by habitually looking at movies and books in moments when life gets difficult.
In the story of a person constantly struggling to find courage, not the end, I also got hints on how to live.
These are not big or flashy scenes, but small but resonant ones that have been consistently recorded for eight years in 『AROUND』 magazine, and among them, the author selected 22 articles to be included.
Sometimes some people include in their postscript what they really want to say.
Things I want to say even though I'm not at the forefront, things I want to add even though I've already put a period.
Here are the author's honest postscripts behind the film and book.

In a letter, a postscript is actually an optional part.
If you've written everything you need to say in the main text, there's no need to write a postscript.
Still, people often add postscripts.
Sometimes I write postscripts intentionally.
The things you really want to say, the sentences that contain your inner feelings that you want to say but cannot bring yourself to say, are written in the postscript, not the main text.
(Omitted) And I add my own story as a postscript.
Although this is not necessary, I hope that this postscript will enrich the letters I send.
I hope this letter will stick in your heart, dear reader.
At the same time, these stories could also be postscripts to letters to the countless Mr. S's in my life.
A postscript to those who gave humanity the courage to step out of the narrow confines of its confinement and step into a wider and deeper world.

--- From "Prologue, Adding a Postscript"

For me, writing is like taking a walk.
Like the bus route and Mr. Paterson's walk to and from home, work, and the bar.
I walk that path at my own rhythm and pace.
I know where I am going, and I know where this road leads.
But you never know what you'll encounter along the way.
Besides, I always have a choice.
The choice to take a different path than this one.
Anyway, I just need to get back home.

--- From "Chapter 1: Where Gravity Is, What Babette Said"

I'm not bad.
No matter what anyone says, I'm the one who's running away from there.
I'm not wrong to hate that person either.
I guess you could think of it that way.
I guess you can think that way.
That's okay, me.
--- From "Masuda Miri, 'Someone I Hate'"

A few years ago, I hated someone very much.
I can talk about it lightly now, but in reality, it was a trap of hatred so serious that I would wake up and writhe in pain as if my stomach was shrinking.
If I had still been trapped in that trap, I would not have been able to write this.
It is impossible to talk about hate in the midst of hate.

--- From "Chapter 1: Where There Is Gravity, Somehow I Hate Someone"

But now I know.
And in the meantime, I graduated from school, made new friends, got a job, and made all those phone calls.
That I got married and had two children.
I even have family, friends, and colleagues who serve as reminders that my life is not a complete failure, that I am not a misfit in this world.
So little by little, I can shake off my fear.
Now I know how to comfort that girl.

'I know, me too.
That I'm scared.
But you did it last time too.
So you can do it this time too.
It may be confusing and scary at first, but it will get better with time.
As always.'
--- From "Chapter 3 Courage for Adults, I Drink Fear"

Even though I'm an adult, I only pretend to be an adult, but I'm not really an adult. Every moment sends a chill down my spine.
Life comes crashing down on you like a giant wave.
Adults need courage too.
I think the greatest gift that all the books and movies I've loved, all the stories they've told me, was a kind of courage.
What I need most is the courage to navigate this difficult life.

--- From "Epilogue, The Heart of Listening to a Story"