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The cactus has bloomed..

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The cactus has bloomed..

Two years ago, while running the cafe, 
feeling a bit lonely,
I brought home
a cactus from the Yangjae flower market..

Maybe because it was inside the cafe 
and wasn't getting enough sunlight, its shape
started to change in odd ways,
and it even started to feel kind of squishy..
 
So I placed it on the sun-soaked stairs of the studio I lived in..
Placed?.. honestly... it was closer to neglected..

Really.. several years went by, and then I came face to face with this little guy again..





It bloomed.
This little one-

as if to say 'look at me', 




Thank you... my little cactus -

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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