[One Thousand Characters a Day] The More I Write, The More I Become Myself <3>

Editor's NoteWriting is neither a special task nor a difficult one. If anyone writes with an attitude of revealing and expressing their self, any evaluation of the resulting work becomes meaningless. As writer Son Hwasin says, writing is a 'process' that achieves its purpose even without a specific goal, and it is an act of living as the 'subject' who is oneself. It holds meaning in itself as a way of getting to know oneself. Son encourages readers to be inspired by this book to write more actively and to discover more unfamiliar and profound things about themselves and their daily lives through writing. Word count: 1009 characters.

Someone once said, "Be kind to one another," because each of us is fighting our own battles. The reason was so impressive that I cannot forget it. Although everyone appears calm on the outside, in reality, each person is struggling fiercely within themselves. It was a message to sympathize with those who are struggling and to be kind to them. The unexpectedly warm reason made me feel a bit touched.

However, we must be kinder to ourselves than anyone else. We must encourage ourselves more passionately than anyone else and embrace ourselves with all our might as if we might break. We should carefully examine whether we are habitually caught up in self-scratching thoughts and how we are feeling right now. This is, in essence, love toward oneself. If you replace the word 'love' with 'kindness,' it becomes much easier to understand.

If you cannot accept that your thoughts might be wrong, life will become even more extreme. Whenever I see someone who is overly confident about anything, I feel a somewhat precarious anxiety. Isn't it true that the certainty that someone is a culprit has caused innocent people to suffer in prison for life? The only way to escape the current creaky situation is to clearly identify and understand what is wrong with it.

I trust myself, but I caution myself not to believe my thoughts one hundred percent. Suppose I am engulfed in negative emotions. If the cause of those emotions is the thought that people dislike me, and I believe this thought to be the absolute truth and fact, I cannot escape from the negative feelings. If I can stand on the opposite side and think that people might not dislike me, there is room for my emotions to change positively.

I often feel that thoughts and emotions are one and the same. When thoughts change, emotions change too. There is only one chair inside me for thoughts, so if thought A sits on this chair, thought B cannot sit there simultaneously. If thought A causes me to be engulfed in negative emotions, then I can push out A and let thought B sit on that chair. Then, my emotions will surely change as well.

- Son Hwasin, As I Write, I Become Myself, Dasan Chodang, 14,000 KRW

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