I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

Think of yourself as entering a sea change in life, and choose things you haven’t chosen before – try to enter situations, even ones you know will end in failure, just to experience failure.

thinking you’re either all-ordinary or all-special.

I just sit around doing nothing, and then stew in my own disappointment.

between what I really want and what others want for me.

Everything about us is the same’ or ‘Everything about us is different.’

You can’t not make that effort and keep thinking, Why am I like this?

You’re just one person, and you’re putting too much of the weight of the world on yourself.

In any case, I tend to go back and forth between romanticism and cynicism. Crossing those barriers between hot and cold, I forget the lukewarm boredom of life; that lukewarm state is what I fear the most. Unable to return to feeling hot or cold, to be numb within a state of room temperature. In that state, we’re nothing better than dead.

Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness. Because it begins with me and ends with everyone.

In the end, a better way to live is to live among others, something