I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

by Baek Se-hee

You try to get out of your depression through your efforts but fail, and this continuing cycle of trying and failing feeds back into the original depression.

Challenge yourself to do something you had never

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

think you tend to focus too much on your ideals and pressure yourself by thinking, I have to be this kind of person! Even when those ideals are, in fact, taken from someone else and not from your own thoughts and experiences.

people who appear arrogant tend to have low self-esteem. They keep trying to get others to look up to them.’

Everything that comes after would be like a lovely bonus. When you feel envious of something, try to imagine how you would look to your twenty-year-old self.

But the you of the present is looking at your life and past as if you’re a failure. When in truth, from the perspective of a younger you, you’re the very picture of success.

don’t compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to your past self.

Once your new experiences start overwriting your old ones, your view of yourself and others may become far brighter than it is now.

twenty-year-old me met me today, she would cry with joy. And that’s enough

Your anxiety can become a burden to others.