Jealous? Hell yeah!
Impressed? Absolutely!
Want to switch places? Of course!
Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure? Well, I think so.
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* She is living and leading *
her dream life; the dream that
I dream of. She is my long ,lost
& secret dream. She creates the
reality in which she turns all
of her dreams into reality.
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What if you had the same support as her?
What if your parents did what they did for her?
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* Truth to be told, my parents
* did everything they were ever so
* capable of doing for me. Their love,
affection and hard work is the result
* of who I am today. They made me from
* scratch. I was nothing before they entered
my life. I had nothing before meeting my
family. They gave me the opportunity to
become whoever I wanted to become.
They worked for me being able to
do what I did best, study,
study and study.
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* * They provided me with everything
* that they had and nothing can take that
* away from them. I owe my family every-
thing I represent. I owe them for loving my
* baby girl just the same. Times change but
* * their unrelenting love stays the same.
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Now, you tell me again and again.
What does jealousy taste like?
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Well, I’ll tell you this.
It is a bit salty, at first.
Then sour.
Then a bit sweet.
Like sweet and juicy juice.
And then a bit sour again.
And then a bit muddy.
And dirty.
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And the smell. The
smell. You can smell it
from far away. It stinks
at the end. From far
away. Till the end.
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Like really stinky and * * *
you can’t get the smell away *
even if you put on another sweat-
shirt over the old and previous * *
stinky one. Smelly. Stinky. Sweaty. *
The only thing you can do is to change *
your perception and put your mind into it. *
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Do I still want to wear this old stinky shirt day in and day out?
Or do I want to take a shower and change clothes completely?
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I may even want to change
perfume for a while. Who knows,
I might attract something better than
jealousy. Something sweet again. Sweet
and soft and nice. For a change. Because if I
don’t, I might
not only end up with wearing my old & smelly
shirt. I might become the smell of it and behave
like the smelly shirt & attract other smelly shirts.
It might end up a smelly business that no one ever
wants to be associated with. A smelly, telly & belly
business or no business at all. I could actually change
shirts that suit I and is tailor made and end up with
peers who are made of the diamond quality. I
could turn into my own fairy tale instead
of pursuing someone else’s smelly,
telly and belly business.
GONG Jae Ok 