[One Thousand Characters a Day] Living Without Incident Even If Not Brilliant <2>

Editor's NoteThis week's 'One Day, One Thousand Characters' transcription content is taken from author Eoh Hyun's essay ＜Living Without Splendor but Without Incident＞. The author shares thirty-seven interesting and humorous stories that whisper to the reader, revealing what she realized while living for decades as a wife, mother, daughter-in-law, and neighbor, dealing with people and situations, and quietly disguised as trivial daily life but actually not trivial at all. The text contains 878 characters.

Living might be like running barehanded through an infinite universe where unknown substances fly at the speed of light, a nerve-wracking experience.

Sometimes, one might accidentally encounter luck, but mostly, people dodge here and there to avoid misfortune, only to find misfortune already waiting at the crossroads. Looking back, even the monstrous entities called misfortune or unhappiness, which seem to approach irregularly and haphazardly, might be armed with their own laws and vitality.

Most people do not want to live long with ugly and unpleasant things, so they devise all sorts of methods, but that is the mindset of the person suffering; misfortune does not cooperate easily.

Misfortune, bad luck, or unlucky events possess invisible vitality and reproduce by using people as hosts. To survive, one must fight them with all one's might, but what weapon can one wield? I worried whether there even is a weapon to endure them.

One thing is certain: it is unknown whether a secret weapon to cope with misfortune is included in life or not. Even if it exists, misfortune or bad luck appears when one is off guard. It does not give time to prepare the secret weapon.

When suddenly confronted with misfortune, most people desperately try to escape the painful time as soon as possible, but pouring excessive energy does not shorten the lifespan of misfortune.

This is because misfortune has its own vitality and requires time to disappear.

Everything that happens in the world, whether good or bad, has invisible stages of creation and extinction. No matter how hard one tries, as long as their lifespan remains, they do not disappear. One must coexist with them until the time of extinction. Sometimes, things disappear immediately after being created, but the law of nature is that the more troublesome and annoying something is, the more persistent and tenacious it is.

- Eoh Hyun, ＜Living Without Splendor but Without Incident＞, Munhak Gonggam, 13,500 KRW

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