Wow,
how much blogspot has changed during my period of neglection.
Today, I walked out of our elevator at work at 10:28pm and immediately my eyebrows decided that they wanted to meet. I frowned at the humidity that had seeped through the glass doors. The word "no" repeated through my brain as I headed towards the exit.
My eyebrows relaxed, as did my eyelids. Sadness flooded into my soul as I forcefully accepted the fact that summer in Korea...had arrived.
I continued my walk home, sweat collecting in my heels and crevices in my body that I shall not name as I neared home.
I arrived home and let my body breathe. After contemplating whether or not to fulfill my craving for fried chicken, I gave in to my begging stomach.
I waited for the knock on the door while watching a TV show called "The Alien Virus". No, it's not some freak-of-nature sci-fi drama. Well, I guess that's half untrue. There is some "freak-of-nature" involved. The guests of this program are very bizarre people, so bizarre that they can be mistaken as aliens. One woman literally eats everything with chocolate syrup; one man does the same but with ketchup; one woman eats ONLY raw food, that being meat.
This week's guest was...sort of out of the ordinary compared to past guests. Her bizarre habit is spending everything in her bank account; she has no savings, no investments, etc. This can be seen as foolish because if she loses her job tomorrow or becomes too ill and can no longer work, she's screwed. But, what she's doing is simply "living in the day". Carpe diem. Barf. Cliche.
Cliche, but commendable.
I feel like that's what Korea has been for me. Live in the day. No matter how much I work, no matter how much I make, I have close to nothing in my savings. And unlike this "alien", I'm not spending all that much on myself either, but to a point where I'm satisfied, where I'm grateful.
She works hard. And plays hard. And lives today.
Today, I sweated. And when I let my body breathe, it was liberating.
{eSeul}
