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49 days
Yesterday marked the 49th day following the passing of my best friend. In Korea, this day is usually marked by a memorial service, which has its roots in Buddhist tradition and is widely practiced across religions all over the country. I attended this memorial for my friend at his resting place yesterday together with his…
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A power bigger than yourself
If you’re becoming depressed from reading my updates about grief, I don’t blame you. Feel free to unsubscribe at any time. For me, however, writing is cathartic. It helps me express my innermost emotions, and it’s entirely up to you if you feel like reading it or not. If I subscribed to my own blog…
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Soulmates
When I lost my best friend a few weeks ago, I lost my soulmate. And when you lose your soulmate, a part of yourself dies with them as well. I don’t subscribe to the idea that your soulmate must necessarily be your life partner or significant other. I believe that your soulmate (and you may…
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Grieving
For the past several years I’ve been using Korean in happy situations, boring situations, professional situations, mundane everyday situations, medical or academic situations. But never for anything as tragic as grief… Until now. Except “I feel a bit down today”, my active Korean ‘sad emotional vocabulary’ was limited to what I knew from dramas and…
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The blog post I never wanted to write
My heart has been shattered into a million pieces. My soul is broken. My body feels like an empty shell. The night before yesterday I received the most dreaded message ever. “Sofie, G has gone to heaven. Promise you’ll never forget him.” My best friend is no longer here and it seems like the world…
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Hope
To hope. To have hope. To not lose hope. Hope seems such a fleeing concept of thinking positively about something you wish will happen in the future. As in “I hope I do well on my test”, “Let’s hope it won’t rain on Sunday”, or “I hope he’ll recover”. Though it may seem that hope…
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Living on a prayer
As humans, we tend to wake up in the morning thinking this day is going to be just like any other. Well, sometimes life brutally reminds us never to take anything for granted. Within just a few days I’ve received two of the single greatest shocks in my life. My world was turned upside down,…
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Yanghwa bridge
For most Koreans, Yanghwa bridge (also known as Yanghwa daegyo) is more than just one of the many iconic bridges spanning the wide waters of the Han River. Yanghwa daegyo is also the title of a song by Zion T. which was made famous by the chorus: 행복하자, 우리 행복하자, 아프지 말고 (haengbokhaja, uri haengbokhaja,…
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How fast can you lose a language?
In less than a week I’ll once more be jetting off to Seoul and I’m beyond excited. I’ve already spent two months away from my second home and I cannot wait to go back to all my favorite cafes, my favorite restaurants and, well, my favorite people! When I first arrived back in Denmark, I…
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I’ll be fine
It’s no secret that I’m on an emotional rollercoaster these days and that the joy of being free and independent and the frustration of feeling useless are battling for my mind’s attention every breathing minute. I’m doing all I can to stay positive (…and sane) so I thought I’d give you an update on my…
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