This book is not an ambitious travelogue that aims to prove that wheelchair users can achieve success.
Author Kim Ji-woo, known as "Rollera Roller" and the author of "I Have a Lot to Say, Rolling" and "Our Strides Are Not a Luxury," has been consistently uploading travel videos to her YouTube channel for the past eight years.
In a total of 27 videos, he travels to Japan with his family, then to Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong with his father, then to France and Switzerland with friends, then to Germany with his mother, and finally to Australia on his own for six weeks.
Just like the excitement he felt when he first rode the subway at the age of twenty, he cried, laughed, hugged, danced, missed the train, and fought in a travel destination completely different from his daily life, experiencing things he had taken for granted in a new way.
What remains at the end of this journey is not a souvenir or a photo of the travel destination, but rather, a clear and transparent 'myself'.

My heart was pounding louder than the clanking of the subway.
Imagine the office workers riding in the same compartment.
Did he know, maybe, that there was a girl in that boring space, biting her lower lip and looking out the window with a nervous look on her face.
--- p.6 From the "Prologue"

We need small successes rather than big ones.
(...) Fortunately, I haven't tried much, so I'm always trying new things.
In the end, there were things I couldn't accomplish, and there were things I accomplished more easily than I thought.
Every time that happened, I became a successful person.
It is a privilege enjoyed only by those who have a lot of things to do.
--- p.9 From "Prologue"

It was the thrill I felt when I first rode the subway when I was twenty.
The excitement of doing something you've never done before and thought you might never be able to do.
You can travel abroad alone.
I could tell with my whole body that it wasn't as bad as I thought.

--- p.15 From the "Preface"

Because care is truly in our relationships.
And because it plays an important part.
The care between us sometimes frustrates us and makes us want to run away to a faraway land, but it also brings us some equally unexpected and enjoyable moments.
(...) I couldn't pretend that something that really existed didn't exist.
Without it, we wouldn't be us.
The more I felt that way, the more I had to open my eyes and face it.

--- p.45 From “We remain where we have flowed”

Here I was a stranger, but it was good to be a stranger in a place where I was actually a stranger.
Even in the country where I was born and lived for 23 years, I was often a foreigner.
Sometimes my heart breaks when I see people calling us “them” instead of “we” or “them.”
I used to feel incredibly lonely when people with similar skin and hair colors, and people who had lived in the same small town with me, didn't see me as one of them.
It felt like there was an uncrossable line between us.
--- pp.50-51 From "I'll Come Back, We'll Meet Again"

I liked the fact that my mom relied on me throughout her trip to Germany, as I was always there for her when we were together.
But at the same time, I found myself wanting to be recognized very strongly.
I want to prove that I am a useful being.
Even though I am a daughter with a disability, I am smart and can take care of my mother.
If I couldn't speak Japanese or English, would I still be a recipient of help?
Could I have accepted myself like that?
--- p.89 From “Care and Usefulness”


It's not perfect, and I wouldn't go back to that store without Niya, but with a little courage, I could go to a bigger place.
The courage to ask for help without being afraid of making a little mistake.

--- p.126 From "Just Ride!"

This discrimination, which exists like air in an unclear form, is sometimes so subtle that both the rejecter and the rejected go unnoticed.
When this happens repeatedly, rejection and exclusion soak into the disabled student like water seeping into a sponge, making his body and mind dull and heavy.
--- pp.130-131 From "Mind Without Doubt"

Things were going strangely.
Only then did I realize.
On that beach, I was the only one who thought I wouldn't go into the sea.
--- p.132 From “A Mind Without Doubt”

I remembered Hyunmi and Taegyun's hands holding my waist for the first time in a long time.
Now I know what those two were trying to tell me while hiding behind me.
A mind that does not doubt the participation of people with disabilities.
A mind that trusts my body and desires.
And the thought that the people I'm with will reach out to me.
I met again on the beach at Torquay in Australia, where two people held each other's hands and supported my waist, telling me what they wanted to convey.
Now it was okay for them to not be crouching and standing behind me.

--- p.135 From “A Mind Without Doubt”

I, who say I hate people as if it were a breath, how easily I fall in love with someone.
In fact, isn't the reason why people hate each other because there are so many people they love?

--- p.176 From "Confession of Hating People"

In the time we meet in the future, which part of me will become smaller and which part of me will become bigger?
There will be moments when the me that now occupies my entire body will feel incredibly different.
As the parts of myself that I love fade away, and as the parts of myself that I want to ignore grow larger.
What kind of relationships will that new me have with the people I love?
I was looking forward to growing into something new.
At the same time, I missed this moment, the one I would never see again.
--- p.196 From “Time to Grow More”

But I'm still looking forward to it.
If I go back and write about this place, I know I'll discover a new me.
I try to live clearly because I know it will definitely be different.
I'm going to go to a lot of people and start something new.
I'm trying to leave my mark here too.

--- p.208 From "Epilogue"