#incomplete life

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I believe in Geurae x Seokyool supremacy!!!

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Misaeng animals.. (They are mostly cats. No surprise there.)

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Misaeng: incomplete life (2014), Episode 19

This scene was really emotional, i was deep in tears watching this 😭

Mr Oh was such a hard worker, decent and heartwarming person, watching him doing all the best he can for his team made me wish that i could have some guided manager like him

The slipper scene also reminded me of Park Dong Hoon from My Mister drama (My fav one of all times).

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💼 Jang Geu-Rae

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Misaeng: Incomplete Life - AsianWiki

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“Forgetting your dream doesn’t make the dream vanish. Not seeing the road doesn’t make the road vanish.” — Lee Sung Min as Oh Sang Sik, Misaeng (2014)

[thanatophobia-thoughts]

Life is what occurs in the “hyphen” on a headstone, in an obituary.

I’ve heard that said many times, but was stricken by it, alongside the thought “complete” and “incomplete” lives.

We would usually assume a person who lives to their 90s has had a “complete” life.

We would assume that someone who lives to only 22, has had an “incomplete” life.

As with so many other age-based expectations, I’m starting to think that this, too, is a harmful thought. We all get a lifetime. We don’t know how long or short that may be. Any life that begins, and ends, by default is a complete life.

At the age of 90, I’m certain there are still going to be plenty of things I want to do. I don’t believe age really “completes” life because I was able to do more, or hit the marks of a traditional life, and enjoy those experiences.

I don’t know how to change the dialogue on it, because I hardly want to start encouraging death, but for those who are dying young, I think there must be some way to learn to tell them they had a complete life, that their life had value, they didn’t “fail” by not aging further, and they will be remembered for the life they led, not for the life they didn’t have.

Of course, that won’t stop us from bringing them forward into experiences they could have had, in our thoughts.

And in situations where a life is ended violently, I can see how it would be hard to call a life “complete” – at any age where it ends in violence, really.

So, I admit, I’m not sure how to help change the language of dying young by disease, or even of dying old by disease, to suggest that a life lived was a complete life, and make it comfortable for all involved.

Obviously, we’re all, always, going to want to do more.

We would all live “incomplete” lives, so long as we have desires.

However, at my own end – if I were to get a terminal diagnosis now, I don’t think I’d want to focus on that. Of course, I’d want to try and quickly knock off a few things on my list, but I’d also want to think about all I have done, not all that I could have done.

That’s likely just going to make me angry…and also upset my loved ones.

I suppose the challenge, or thought process today, is to start considering how to make life seem “complete”, how to change your own internal dialogue on life expectations, and death expectations, so that even though you will die with things undone, you can still find acceptance in the reality that we all die with things undone, and all lives are complete in spite of that.  

There is no getting a “100%” complete on life, unlike video games. 

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misaeng, 2014