It was when I was running a cafe in Daechi-dong before.
There was a lady who used to come often.
She had once been famous as a fashion designer,
and after marriage she had quit her work, married a good husband, and was raising her children in Daechi-dong, the kind of place others envied.
But she said she was undergoing psychiatric treatment.
She said raising kids in Daechi-dong was so hard. And she said she missed her own past passions terribly.
She was good with her hands and was making accessories as a hobby.
I made a space in the cafe.
And I helped her make business cards. And I let her give a lecture to other customers.
Gradually, life began to return to her eyes...
And she stopped going to the hospital and became independent. ^-^ Oh hohoho-
And she said thank you. That word made me even more grateful. Truly. Truly.. T_T
Reading this passage.. she suddenly comes to mind..
If this book had existed back then, I would have given her a copy.. that thought lingers in my head.
There is, after all, no human being without any problems.
In [Jack Canfield's Encouragement] there's a story about a young man troubled because he can't solve a problem.
He says he absolutely cannot solve the problem on his own and visits Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil then offers to take him to a place where people who have no problems at all live.
The young man, jumping for joy, said,
"Are there really such people? Please take me there. I'll do anything."
The place the doctor took him to was none other than a graveyard.
The doctor said,
"Look. 150,000 people live here, but not one of them has a problem."
Life is bound to have its ups and downs.
We can't solve all the problems
of the people we love,
but we can simply be by their side.
In the end, over a long period of time,
isn't that perhaps the strongest expression of love?
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, from [Life Lessons]
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