2017 Tistory Year-End Review

One of the few days in a year with no tags. Thanks to Tistory providing a year-end review feature this year, I'm doing this blog year-end review. A year-end tidying of a blog year that leaves much to be desired - this year had many regrets.

1) Leaving school - leaving school was one of the biggest regrets for me. To me, the space called school was a space beyond just 'school.' It was like home. It was the first space that let me have my own home, my own space, my own independent life. It was a space that will stay in my memory for a very long time. It was a space steeped in happiness, memories, and reminiscences. I came down to Gwangju, and I don't really think of school because I don't have enough breathing room for it to come to mind, but still, when I write like this, I miss it again.

2) Parting with people - this one too, is big. The people who'd been close to me have grown physically distant from me again. The people I can meet around Gwangju have, in a sense, grown close again, but still there's some regret. Because it will be hard to meet them easily again.

3) The exam - failing the exam is also a regret. It's more comfortable to think I just fell short, but right now that's really not easy to do. Even so, I'm just plodding along anyway. I'm studying again.

There were joyful things too. For example, growing close to new people is something to be glad about. I can't pinpoint exactly who, but just the fact that they're there, and feeling that such people have increased compared to last year, makes me glad. And I'm glad it was a year in which I could feel that I'm a decent person.

I pray that next year too, this blog can function as a space that can hold a spectrum of various emotions and a spectrum of various thoughts.