Abstract Old Soul

[abstractoldsoul]

"Sometimes, misfortune and good luck have the same face, and I still cannot tell their faces apart." - Tak Dong Kyung in Doom at Your Service

[abstractoldsoul]

Every night you dream that you talk to a genie, when you wake up you can't remember what you wished for. One morning you wake up with a giant crab pincer replacing your right arm. What do you do?

After realizing my arm has really been changed into an crab pincer, I wasn't dreaming it, I would try to think of what benefit there is to this new arrangement. I would see what I can pinch or cut or hit. How much does this limit what I can grab? My day would turn into a list of experiments. I would think that maybe if I figure out how this benefits me, I can then use that information to figure out what I wished for. There's no way to know when dream me might ask the genie to give me my normal arm back.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

progress can come in so many forms.

forming a routine. getting more sleep. showering more often. eating more than one meal a day. finishing an assignment on time. allowing yourself to take breaks when you need them. drinking more water. going outside more. spending more time socializing. not going to events that are draining. cleaning the dishes before they pile up.

some things seem like little steps that we barely acknowledge, but every one of them is a part of progress.

[abstractoldsoul]

What a great reminder as college starts back up.

[abstractoldsoul]

Any recommendations for family/kid friendly Kdramas?

[philosophybits]

“Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.”

— Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life (via quotespile)

[petitefleuriste]

If marriage shows us the shape of the gospel, singleness shows us it’s sufficiency. It’s a way of declaring to a world obsessed with sexual and romantic intimacy that these things are not ultimate, and that in Christ we possess what is.

— Sam Allberry

[abstractoldsoul]

The casting for Helen Reddy in I Am Woman is insanely perfect. They genuinely look and sound very similar.

[saeraas]

[abstractoldsoul]

No shame, just enthusiasm

[abstractoldsoul]

There are some awful, evil antagonists in Kdramas. A lot of times it adds so much to the story, and for serving that purpose, I enjoy them being there. They can also be entertaining or very complex and interesting characters. Sometimes I just have to give the writers props for making such clever, smart characters.

Yet, despite being so, so far from being the most evil villain I've seen, Gizzard is the one I think I'm most frustrated to watch. I ardently desire to have one minute alone with her so I can bash her head in. Her brand of arrogant, selfish, greedy, and stupid is infuriating. She has no idea how stupid what she does is even though she's repeatedly doing the same kind of stupid things that only make things worse for everyone. She doesn't care who dies if she can live and recklessly offers up the lives of others in exchange for deals that she thinks will help her even though a blind monkey could figure out that she's going to be betrayed. Every time she comes on screen, I want to scream.

Then she has the gall in her arrogance to be self-righteous. Demanding fairness and honesty and also holding grudges while those people made desperate decisions when she willingly, without coercion, chooses to act like she has the right to get any number of people killed to save her own skin.

If this show wants me to have mixed feeling about her - to sympathize with her being poor or losing her sister - or to, Lord forbid, ship her who is the most disloyal woman I've ever seen with the only really loyal young North Korean spy in this drama - so help me, I don't know what I'll do.

[beguines]

Thomas Merton, Dialogues with Silence

[cryptonature]

Your favorite song does not use all notes simultaneously.

Your favorite art is not all shades and hues.

The sweetness in life is as much a question of omission as inclusion.

Remember this when considering your own limitations.

The answer to "what is enough?" is not "all of it."

[abstractoldsoul]

Name something in Kdramas you used to be confused by but now appreciate.

[abstractoldsoul]

What happened to the versions of Tae Sul and Seo Hae that came back to save themselves and shoot Sigma?

[abstractoldsoul]

I get why Eddy Kim has a grudge against Tae Sul. I get why Eddy Kim would like to have the uploader and make Tae Sul experience the things he did. And after the speech by Sigma, he might believe in his potential to have a better life (even though this is definitely the wrong way to do that, I can understand how he might think it).

But I don't understand at all why Eddy would want to destroy the world. Sigma had a grudge against everyone and especially against Tae Sul because he felt betrayed by him and blamed him for how the rest of his life went - so I understand him wanting the world to burn. But Eddy actually seemed concerned about the world being destroyed when he found out about it. Sigma had creepy tendencies saturating down to his marrow, but Eddy was pretty normal. Eddy wanted to keep his crush safe. Eddy for a long time wanted to keep Tae Sul safe. Eddy had a career and was the CEO of a famous company. Yes, Tae Sul hadn't been a good friend and his crush wasn't interested in him, but destroying all of Korea over that seems pointless. It would be so much easier for him to get what he wants by just going back in time and changing things than causing a war just to go back in time and change things? And if he was successful and got the life he wanted, the war would cut that life short. It just doesn't make sense to me.

[abstractoldsoul]

Why was it so important that Tae Sul only open the tin box and touch the powder stuff as a last resort? Does that have a great connection to the ending that I can't figure out?

[abstractoldsoul]

"Bookstore journal - Goodnight Bookstore Blog

Private writing posted by Seob

There are things that are seen better when alone,

and the things learned from loneliness are not as bad as one might think.

After all, the smaller your expectations, the more serenely your life flows.

Having something you truly want is distressful.

However, it's not like I don't have any desires..."

[abstractoldsoul]

"Revenge only calls for another revenge."

-- Sang Pil's uncle, Dae Woong, in Lawless Lawyer