The desire to be a god destroys the individuals and the peace.

At first when starting to read the book, I decided not to cry. I just didn't want to allow the emotion of the sadness. However, after reading, I realized I couldn't avoid the sadness from the history, but also the guilt. @sojj1210 wrote the book in very virtuous and noble way with the sincerity. Hope many people read the book in Korea, and it is published all over the world. I am also very thankful because knowing their lives and stories about the endurance made me realize how grateful to have my own country. #bookstagram

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The Old Man and The Sea, Earnest Hemingway, Goodreads Book Review

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Personally, I don't like any idea based on nihilism, since it goes against my motivation toward the life. However, the old man and the sea is totally different. Even though Hemingway treated the life as nothing left after all, I could find more than nihilism.
As I know, he won both Pulitzer prize and the Nobel prize, which I actually have the strong desire for, with this small volume of the story. It well indicates about the life and human's basic instinct for the life and accomplishment. Although the old man couldn't get anything from the sea because of the fights with sharks, he still had a boy next to him.
We are always struggling to fight against the life and the obstacle blocking out ways, and after the long fight, it seemed that we have nothing left with. But in fact, we have any kind of relationship still keeping us from giving up the lives and letting us rest with peace.

+plus: 2015.11.15
Recently, all of sudden, I've thought that our lives are more like the marlin rather than the old man who fought against the nature to get what he desired for. Sometimes, we were just hooked and dragged to where the society takes us to be and believed that that is the reality, even though it is not. At the end of the journey, there might be nothing left who did dot live their own lives and lived fiercely in the way that the old man let it be.

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Get ready for the next battle?

When I decided to go buying some books at the book store, the phrase "get ready for the next battle?" the video game Taekyeon saying was stuck right in my mind and kept repeating it over and over again. This winter must be the period for the next stage coming in the upcoming spring, which I should prepare for. 

The life has been wild since the last posting. Actually it was not super wild, but still wild enough for me to survive, I think. I experienced the death, which gave me the time to think of what the life is, and affection, which made people feel the love inside the relationship. However, here I am, I am here to write the story of my life again. It might be my English problem, in my totally personal opinion, because I always felt the pressure to write the longer posting with the sufficient contents on my life thinking, which resisted me to write any type of blog posting. 

I am listening to Adele at 4.40 in the morning. With the full of sentimentality, I also again, once again, decided to write the blog posting as many as possible to enhance my writing skill, to record and track the thought and time of mine, and to share it with random unknown people who might get some positive energy through reading my stories. Well, my stories could be really ridiculous and weird, but I think it could be more precious than anything to me, because it is from the heaven. Thank God.