Wasted

"Shit."

After meeting her, I spent the rest of the day, until evening, revisiting places tied to my memories.

I went looking for all kinds of things—my school, the snack bar I remembered—but in the end, I found nothing.

"Haa."

Just like me, the village had nothing left of what it used to be.

Just as I’d left the countryside for the city to attend high school, then moved to Seoul to work for a company, and then, exhausted by reality, became a woman,

the world had changed as I had.

"Well, I guess that’s how it is."

From now on, I tried to focus only on the good things.

I shook my head, clearing away the bad thoughts, the sad thoughts, all the negativity, then smiled brightly and walked around the neighborhood...