If You Fall, Just Lie There for a While
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A social worker for ten years, after experiencing abscesses on her buttocks, hair loss, and physical breakdown, she came to the countryside and bought an old house. She was determined to give up marriage, overseas education, and a familiar job to become a farmer. I imagined that I would be able to develop myself well after controlling my time, but I ended up spending the first day unknowingly watching TV series. Imagine the idyll of leisurely brewing tea, only to spend more time holding a shovel than chopsticks. As a former gnawer, I didn't know the price of rolling paper until I left my "host" and regretted not stealing more rice from my parents' house before I left. I was once a stay-at-home girl who could lie down but not stand up, and a fragile laborer with no strength, but now I have to carry cement on my shoulders and drive an excavator to pave the yard with 25 tons of soil. I wanted to rely on my retired mother to help with farming, but my mother left a message, "Mom is not as free as you, come on, come on" and ran back to Seoul overnight. She finally understood that with freedom of choice, one must also bear the consequences independently. Only then did she experience how happy it was to bravely face the loss of control, challenges, and possibilities she had never encountered before, and to start a new life that was truly her own.
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