Old Love Memo

This is a book about salvaging yourself from the ashes of love. Before her twenty-eighth birthday, her mother's message urging her to get married arrived as promised. I stood in front of the mirror in the rental house, and suddenly I didn't recognize the person in the mirror. Ten years ago, the boy who had mountains and lakes in his eyes and believed that love would fall from the sky has quietly faded away in the tide of several relationships, leaving behind an adult who is increasingly vague about intimate relationships and increasingly unfamiliar with himself. So I decided to go back - not to someone, but to the scene of every relationship, to identify what I had become and what parts I had lost that could never be redeemed. Those loved ones, broken dreams, and unspoken words, develop into a secret growth trajectory under the light of review. When the past page turned to the last page, I got on my motorcycle and drove towards the red route marked on the map ten years ago. Snowy mountains, wasteland and endless wind are blowing in my face. I don't know if I am searching or escaping. I only know that some people set out just to prove that they can still go.