I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

by Baek Se-hee

My desire to speak freely of my mental suffering was matched by my desire to hide myself from it all.

I’ve also realised that revealing my darkness is just as natural a thing to do as revealing my light.

If we have a habit of judging people from a simplistic perspective, that perspective will eventually turn against ourselves.

There is no absolute good when it comes to relationships. And it’s perfectly healthy to have disagreements with friends and lovers from time to time. I just hope you learn to differentiate the parts from the whole. Just because you like one thing about a person, you don’t need to like everything about them. And just because you don’t like one thing about a person, it doesn’t mean the person as a whole isn’t worth your time.

To tell the truth, no one was looking down on me except myself.

you should enjoy the freedom of your own thoughts.

Your self-esteem determines how you feel about the sincerity of others.

This is a record of a very ordinary, incomplete person who meets another very ordinary, incomplete person, the latter of whom happens to be a therapist.