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"It's Okay to Live the Way You Want" by author Jeong-eun Yoon
An essay full of excitement that will make you want to travel.

After reading this book, you will be filled with the excitement of travel.
I slowly reminisce about the precious memories of my past trips where I left in search of something and returned.
A night flight, reading poetry while looking out the window, drinking a beer while listening to upbeat music flowing along the beach.
Hearing the sound of barley in Jeju's green barley fields, eating, drinking, walking, laughing, and talking at Nampo-dong Market.
You can encounter eighty stories that will turn your living space into a travel destination.

You who want to be infused with vitality when life becomes dull.
You want to put aside your tiring daily life for a while and go somewhere.
This is “Travel or Love” for you who wants to leave but cannot.
Beautiful sentences that begin with travel and end with love awaken the senses we have forgotten in our repetitive daily lives.
Incheon Airport, Gimpo Airport, Express Bus Terminal, Dong Seoul Terminal, Seoul Station, Cheongnyangni Station.
The story begins in that space of departure and welcome.


“I have decided to be happy at this moment.
I think you become as happy as you decide to be.
As I travel through the day, I realize that each day is a gift and everyday life is a jewel.
Because beautiful everyday life comes together to create a beautiful life.
To all of you who have walked this journey with me, tomorrow will be as good as today." (_From the text)

Maybe we leave every day and come back every day.
As I open this door.
We embark on a journey called life every day, forgetting that the journey is a journey.
I close the door and lace up my sneakers for today's adventure.
If the first snow fell every day, it wouldn't remain as an exciting or heartbreaking memory.
I walk forward with a heartfelt wish for the well-being of my loved ones.

--- p.8

If a journey is about leaving in order to return, then perhaps the final destination of this journey is you.
No matter how much my heart flies, it always arrives at you.

--- p.22

Can we live like dancing to the lively music flowing on this beach right now?
If our lives were a dance, could all our gestures be light?
Life is a dream, and I am dreaming it here now.
A sweet dream that won't wake you up.
I dream of living each day as if dancing, like the sand touching my toes, like the free waves, without a set path.

--- p.27

I want to play without working, I want to have fun, I want to be pretty, I want people to like me, I want the kid I like to confess, please let us love, please make my mom and dad healthy…
The desires of those who have gone before and your own desires mix with the waves and flow out to the sea without anyone knowing whose wish it is.
Wouldn't it be better to grant the wishes of those who reach you first?
I want to desire to my heart's content.
The joys and sorrows of life, and even the little happinesses.

--- p.72

If it's hard, it's hard, if it hurts, it hurts, if you miss me, you miss me, you have to talk about it.
There is a limit to how much you can understand without being told.
We have language to say what we need to say.
It is foolish to endure it alone when you really need help and are having a hard time.
Of course, it is more difficult to have the courage to receive help than to help others.
There's no formula that says you have to be mature when you grow up, but I guess we learned how to swallow our sadness first.
Let's try to find the courage to reach out when we need help most, rather than relying on habitual dependence.

--- p.76

The daily routines and events we encounter in life are like unpredictable gifts.
You can choose how many gifts you receive.
Even if you don't expect a huge gift, you can receive gifts frequently, every day, since you eat two or three meals a day.
I believe that small but certain happinesses can accumulate to create a loving life where we receive gifts every day.
When I see people dancing like this while waiting for the meat to sizzle, I don't think I'd regret spending all my joy for the day on this moment.

--- p.112

The wind blowing as you leave for somewhere is so refreshing.
Why are the jerky and tteokbokki eaten at rest stops so delicious?
We arrived in front of Naejangsan Mountain, deeply moved, and we joked around while looking at the autumn reeds, then giggled as we climbed the mountain.
After climbing for about an hour, I went into a restaurant and ordered kimbap and pajeon (green onion pancakes). I ate the crispy, warm food with the mountain breeze, and soothed my leg muscles that were shocked by the long-awaited hike.
People grumble that it's a waste to go all the way to see the autumn leaves, but it's actually really nice.
That's why people use the season as an excuse to travel.
In spring, we go flower viewing, in summer, we go water viewing, in fall, we go autumn foliage viewing, and in winter, we go snow viewing.

--- p.144

You don't know that the moment right in front of you is beautiful, and you only think that it is beautiful when you look at it from afar.
Even the days of mistakes, regrets, and confusion will come together to form a beautiful future.
After all, the standard of ‘beauty’ is something I create.
If you think that even the stains that have been there for a long time are beautiful, then they are beautiful.
Just like how a road that was on the verge of demolition has become such a beautiful park.
It gives me courage.
It's the courage to get back up even if you make mistakes and fall.

--- p.200

Actually, I don't think so, but he deliberately hums "It's a beautiful day" and hugs me with his right and left arms crossed.
Pat pat, good job.
are you okay.
It will pass soon.
It'll be okay.
Lightly stroke your arm from top to bottom and tell them what you want to hear.
The temperature of the heart begins to rise little by little.

--- p.202