Sharmin Asha

Baek Se-hee works for a publishing house .She has dysthyma. She yearns to get validation, compare herself to others and always worry for the future .She chastises herself for not being an ordinary person and judgemental towards others.After years of suffering from mental struggle, she sought help to her psychiatrist.The conversation between them unfolds her candid feelings of a series of unfortunate events in her life.In every session she questions her identity regarding her upbringing,academic degree, social prejudices and things that refrain her from being her.Her psychiatrist tried to help her view these circumstances in three dimensional aspects to make her think a person she could be proud of and accept her darkself in a kind way.Despite suffering from dysthymia,she lives to eat her favourite food tteok-bokki. Its the author's memoir of her therapy session that teaches us to stop trapping ourselves in a binary formula ,learn to look up a person as a whole and not to expect someone to always be a certain way. Its a story everyone can relate . quotes that captured me If I dont plant the seed in myself, It will never grow. Which is why some people never seem to understand the lives of others. Calling yourself ordinary might be a good way to protect yourself.