2_Beauty comes from ugliness.
February, which contains the shortest days of the year, came to an end in an instant.
I was ready to welcome Magnolia with a more refreshed heart than ever before, and each day of February shone like a star with its delicate light. Infinitely, as if it will never disappear. Anxiety and uncertainty are stories from a distant universe. Like a fresh flower in a greenhouse, I receive only the dew. Is that necessarily a bad thing? I thought I couldn’t collect much, but the sentences that were recorded as I squeezed through the gaps were amazing. As cliché as it is, it permeated in spring.
-.Between what is happening and what we want to happen is stress. Understanding that allows us to let it go.
by Headspace
-.Living means that something breaks down one by one. It is about holding and looking at the broken thing, stroking it, hating it and loving it, and realizing that it is also my heart. Living is a struggle to live like normal while embracing something that has deviated from the normal orbit. So, all abnormalities are normal.
by cafe Heseiti
-.Last year’s ‘Concept Generation’s pause’ was a very painful time for editor-in-chief Kim Kyung-hee, but for the person Kim Kyung-hee, it was a time when she was able to meet a ‘new me’. Not long ago, while preparing for this issue and searching for ‘change’, I came across this sentence at a brunch. “If you want to change your life, change one of the following: where you live, the people you meet, or how you spend your time.”
Are you satisfied with your current life? If you want to change your life for the better, try changing at least one of the following: where you live, who you meet, or how you spend your time. It might be a time to discover a new you like me.
by Concept Jin Editor-in-Chief Kim Kyung-hee
-.But how many people can really explain the word ‘authenticity’? If you keep digging into one word, it’s like a gestalt collapse, and you start to question what it really was. Since they were only focused on the career and background behind Youngji Lee, it didn’t matter to them what kind of lyrics I spit or what kind of rap I did. Since you’re covering your ears, no matter what you do, you won’t be able to see it as if you’re pouting. Actually, trying to fight against something like that seems like a meaningless kick. I just have to do my own thing well. Because it is wiser to secure more people who like me, support me, and cheer me on. So I just worked hard.
-.When I was young, my family circumstances were not good. I lived in a semi-basement, had to sew stockings, and couldn’t eat as much as I wanted. It was just a matter of surviving. I loved my mother and grandmother, but it was difficult to get along with them if there was no money at home. Since my family’s financial situation was difficult, I only went outside. To be honest, as I started earning money, the atmosphere at home improved.
-.What others think of Lee Young-ji, and what I think of Lee Young-ji. Is there a difference?
You are weaker than others think. When my ideal self and my actual self are different, I really feel a lot of ‘hyeontae’.
How do you overcome those times?
I can’t get over it. I feel it. I’m just having a hard time. Then, as a person, you naturally become dull and become okay. When I try again when it becomes dull, I sometimes find that it is closer to what I had imagined.
by Cosmopolitan Youngji Lee Interview
-. When the seasons change, I organize my closet and eat seasonal food. The seasonal bookshelf here has books that are in season. Bring a sense of the season not only to your closet and dining table, but also to your bookshelf. It would be a good idea to create a healthy daily life by embracing the pace and sense of the season.
by Somehow Take a Walk BOOKSHOP Seasonal Bookshelf
-.The universe of wabi-sabi
Metaphysical basis: Things come from nothing and return to nothing.
Spiritual Value: Truth comes from observation of nature. ‘Greatness’ resides in details that are not easily seen and overlooked. Beauty can be derived from ugliness.
State of mind: acceptance of the inevitable, response to cosmic order
Moral precepts: Eliminate all unnecessary things. They focus on the essence and are indifferent to material hierarchy.
Material characteristics: Allusion to natural processes, irregularity, intimacy, sincerity, simplicity, turbidity and darkness, simplicity
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-.The word ‘essay’, which means writing about personal experiences or thoughts without a special format, was first used by philosopher Montaigne. It is a word that comes from the verb essayer, which means ‘to experience’ or ‘to try for the first time’. Unlike the French philosophers and humanists of the 16th century, Montaigne, who wanted to write only in vivid words, thought in his own place and came up with humane and sound answers in order to exist as a spiritual individual, ‘I’. The reason why writings from the 16th century are still readable today is because they used one’s own lifestyle as concrete material, not deep philosophy.
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