Recommendation _ Old Luck (Na Tae-joo)
Introduction_ The Time of Destiny (Lee Young-moon)

Chapter 1: I have an absolute ally.

[prolog]
Na Tae-joo
The power of beautiful poetry

Gift · 2
The gift of meeting
The person standing before you right now is a gift.

dazzling world
Law of Attraction
Mental health, an essential element of human survival

yearning
Longing and loneliness are different
Research on loneliness

Wildflowers
Wildflowers and Jajangmyeon
The great hallucinogenic effect of poetry

tree
Your mother is watching
Because God cannot be everywhere

motherhood
I have an absolute supporter
Resilience, the power that helps us grow and mature

ask
Everyone is alone
Overcoming separation anxiety is essential to achieving complete independence.

Old Na Tae-ju
Living as a minor
A person with self-esteem also has a sense of presence.

Chapter 2_ Life is clumsy,
It's okay to be wrong

worry
Did you have a caramel macchiato today?
Free yourself from the desires of others

are you okay
Life is clumsy, everyone is anxious, it's okay to make mistakes
Endless anxiety eats away at the soul

Don't try too hard to do well
Leave some space in your heart
Please, let's do tomorrow what can be done tomorrow.

To my young friend
The deep river flows far away
True words set men free.

After leaving
Love is longing
It's not that love has changed, it's that people have changed.

I you
The meaning of the original
Love, a state ruled by unconscious choices

miss you
Memory lasts longer than love.
Live your life

uninhabited island
Man is an island
Humans grow when they are alone.

A Shabby Confession
Become a star that shines on its own

Chapter 3: Poetry Saves People

Gongju Wildflower Literature Museum
Simple fullness
A house that calls for longing

Lucia's Garden
The rest that old times bring
The opposite of 'addiction' is 'relationship'

faraway
Finding a place for the heart to stay
Freedom from relationships

Plaza de España
A journey to meet me
Forgive yourself first

sorrow
Melancholy comforts sorrow
Proof that I am alive

Separation
To Momo, who has grown up
Humans grow by crossing the river of depression.

Living
Living is great
Why Love and Depression Coexist

thanks
Self-respect comes from gratitude.
A textbook on self-psychology: "My Liberation Diary"

city
Poetry saves people
The power to endure uncertain reality

Chapter 4: The life before you is the most beautiful.

Empty from afar
Consideration: A Heart that Beats Time
The Beginning of True Friendship: Psychological Independence

Walking along the field
After 300,000 words and 30 years, love finally came.
Affection lasts a long time - the vitality of empathy

Mother's work
On the greatness of women
Women, capable of caring and empathy

Back view
A person with a beautiful back
The real me that MBTI doesn't know

Prayer before going to bed
Don't fight sleep
Principles of the natural biological clock

happiness
Happiness is ice cream
Connect with a relationship connector

Have a nice day
Today is a good day.
The Secret to Happiness Discovered at Harvard University

river
The value of life is determined by each individual.
Live the life that lies before you

Epilogue
sash
To my beloved son and daughter
The person reflected in the mirror

A 10-year conversation between a poet and a psychiatrist

Poets explore and heal the human mind through poetry, and psychiatrists explore and heal the human mind through conversation.
Both are people who understand humans and gain insight into their inner world through the power of language.
When a client talks about his or her life for a long and tedious time, the therapist listens attentively, concisely identifies the core emotions, and provides the necessary answers.
Like an internist who prescribes medication, a psychiatrist's role is to help heal the mind through language.
The author describes this therapeutic process of repeated conversations as a time for true words to be nurtured.


When a poet writes poetry, it is also a time to speak truth.
Poet Na Tae-ju's poetry is becoming more concise as time goes by.
Author Lee Young-moon and poet Na Tae-ju have been in contact for a long time and have had conversations about life and humanity.
This book is a compilation of stories about two people, like a thousand and one nights.


How Poetry Soothes the Human Heart

The author says that 'psychoanalysis' is the study of one's own story that exists in memory.
The reason we have painful memories of loving someone is because the emotions, places, and stories that were involved in that memory are still alive.
It is also proof of my past existence.
This book introduces 35 famous poems by poet Na Tae-ju, telling stories about various emotions related to the themes of the poems and the landscapes of people's hearts.


To poet Na Tae-ju, everything alive is an object of gratitude.
I am grateful for loneliness and longing, and even for the clouds and the wind.
Above all, you can love others when you forgive and appreciate yourself for being alive.
The author says that self-psychology begins with comforting oneself.
This means forgiving yourself first.
It is about forgiving yourself for not being perfect and for making mistakes over and over again.
Because self-forgiveness is the beginning of true self-esteem.


The poet's imagination heals the aching heart.

Everyone's life has its own sorrows.
So, as we go through life, we often feel pain in our hearts.
The poet's imagination takes away this pain.
A beautiful poem can provide us with a catharsis that goes beyond medical treatment.
So, it is said that poetry is not something to be ‘written’ but something to be ‘created’.
Make clothes, cook food, and build a house.
The expression 'build' can only be used to describe the basic necessities of life, i.e. food, clothing, and shelter.
The expression 'to build' can be used only after much effort has been put into it.
So, writing poetry is like saving people's lives.
This is also poet Na Tae-ju's philosophy.
The essence of psychoanalysis is the same.
Just as we wait for flowers to bloom on frozen ground, compassion arises when we need someone to share our pain.
The sprout of empathy is sprouting.
The mind of a poet and the mind of a psychotherapist are essentially the same.
The medical genre of treatment and the poetic territory of healing are based on empathy.
Therefore, people write poetry, and poetry gives life to people.


Answering Life's Question: "How Should We Live?"

When we love an object, we see a lack that is missing from ourselves.
Because love is the unconscious flow of searching for something lost.
Therefore, in order to become whole, we must constantly love others.
The author says that after reading poet Na Tae-ju's poem 'Empty from afar', he felt a sudden ache in his heart.
It was because I remembered the image of my friend crying at the train station 40 years ago when I left for Seoul to study abroad.
A friend recalls comforting his wounded mother on his behalf.
My friend, who lost his parents and younger sibling at an early age, was mature and considerate in many ways.
The writings in this book are full of the author's sincerity and heartfelt sentiments.
I advise young people to first think about what they want to do to overcome separation anxiety, and when choosing a love interest, I advise them to always choose someone they like rather than someone who likes them.
Even in a world where self-esteem has collapsed, it tells us that we must respect and love ourselves, not worry too much about what others think, and be true to our own desires.
The poem, 'Don't try too hard to do well', tells us to reduce our obsessions and leave some space in our hearts.
Being depressed is proof that I am alive.
It is a feeling that arises from being ashamed of oneself and being humble.
This is also a process like a rite of passage that must be gone through to live a better life.
So I encourage you to love yourself enough to be sad about something.
The author emphasizes that we all must live the life that is before us, as the saying goes, “Live your life (Vis ta vie).”