“It was also revealed that the reason I am cruel to others is because I have low-self-esteem. Because I don’t love myself, I am unable to understand those who do love me in spite of it all, and so I test them. “You love me even when I do this? Or this? Or this?” Even when the other person forgives me, I am unable to understand their forgiveness, and when they give up on me, I torture and console myself with the “fact” that no one could ever love me. That goddamn self-esteem. [...] Looking more closely at myself, there are parts that I've improved on. I still remain someone who is unable to love herself. But as I had that thought, I had another: light and darkness are part of the same thing. Happiness and unhappiness alternate throughout life, as in a dance. So as long as I keep going and don’t give up, surely I will keep having moments of tears and laughter. This book, therefore, ends not with answers but with a wish. I want to love and be loved. I want to find a way where I don’t hurt myself. I want to live a life where I say things are good more than things are bad. I want to keep failing and discovering new and better directions. I want to enjoy the tides of feeling in me as the rhythms of life. I want to be the kind of person who can walk inside the vast darkness and find the one fragment of sunlight I can linger in for a long time. Some day, I will.” PsychologySelf HelpMental HealthMemoirContemporaryNonfictionAutobiographyAdultCulturalAsian Literature Book:I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki Source: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
“What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires.” PsychologySelf HelpMental HealthMemoirContemporaryNonfictionAutobiographyAdultCulturalAsian Literature Book:I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki Source: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
“Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else.” PsychologySelf HelpMental HealthMemoirContemporaryNonfictionAutobiographyAdultCulturalAsian Literature Book:I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki Source: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki