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Geum-myeong is so annoying and I so get her. She’s me, I’m her (when I was a bit younger). I even talked the same way to my parents and regretted it every time.

Ep. 8 had me bawling probably just as much as ep. 6. It’s the dad traveling from far away and waiting for hours just to see his daughter, it’s him waving goodbye from the bus and seeing her as a little kid, it’s the mom and dad willing to sacrifice everything to make their daughter’s dreams come true. It’s how Geum-myeong understands all of this and bursts into tears whenever she thinks of them.

It’s how both Aesun and Gwansik keep asking Geum-myeong whether she really really wants to study abroad because she lied before saying she didn’t care. How Aesun keeps pressuring her to answer because it’s not something she can dismiss, her daughter must have everything she wants.

It’s how Geum-myeong’s dream is actually Aesun’s dream because they’re the same and the whole metaphor about swallowing the dreams and soaring high.

Also how Aesun fulfilled her mother’s dreams (seeing her daughter go to college and succeed, getting a pearl necklace) and Geum-myeong achieved Aesun’s dreams (going to college, studying abroad, flying on a plane).

I keep thinking about my own parents and what they’ve done for me and it makes me cry even more.

I like how, when you finish the fourth episode in the volume, it feels like all the weight and meaning of them come crashing down anew.

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WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TANGERINES (2025) dir. KIM WON-SEOK If she can't even ride a tricycle, she'll just live in the kitchen the rest of her days. I want Geum-myeong to have everything.

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— They, too, are all just pretending to be adults because people tell them they are. — I just want to quickly grow old.

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hope as a defense mechanism. as a coping strategy. as a way to see there is still a future to fight for and then to keep fighting for it. hope as in it being the thing you hold on to so it can save you. hoping so I won’t feel defeated by cruelty in the world, keeping hope alive because others desperately want us to lose it.

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take life a little less seriously. learn a skill that isn’t resume-friendly. own your decisions without punishing yourself. both above average and average results are great; it’s good to do something at all. do many things, do many things badly. think about the big picture. the time is passing, regardless

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Schuyler Peck, Worth the Wait

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literally waiting for it to pass so i can start using my heart's full potential again oh my goodness..

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I think it’s time I do everything I ever wanted

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“It was an act of self-preservation — however misguided it was”.

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

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IM SI-WAN & SHIN SE-KYUNG as KI SEON-GYEOM & OH MI-JOO RUN ON 런 온 (2020—2021) dir. Lee Jae-Hoon

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Run on (2020)

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maybe i was made for loving things. maybe that's what life is all about.

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how do you reconnect to life after being disconnected for so long

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all the green in the world!!

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GRACIE ABRAMS accepts the award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards | March 17, 2025.