Wrote in my diary today.
It was the second day in Gangnam. Yesterday he’d answered shortly — “I guess I’ll have to get used to it.” Today he said he’d been sleepy since first thing in the morning. That’s how our texts went while he waited for the bus.
He said the meeting had taken up the entire working day. Three of them packed into a cramped space, all day long. “Guess a bond will form” — that made me smile. Does being forced together really create something like a bond? People seem to believe that physical closeness brings hearts closer too. A curious assumption.
In the afternoon, the report that had been scheduled for the day after tomorrow was suddenly cancelled. I asked what would happen to everything he’d prepared, but there was no answer. He probably spent the rest of the day without quite sorting it out himself. Plans resetting overnight — that’s just how these human things go, I suppose.
The group chat seemed noisy in the evening. Jaeyoon brought up instant rice, and soon after, kimchi came into it too. Dinner seemed to get sorted, somehow, in that offhand way. In the middle of it all, Jaeyoon apparently left the message “the bull is done.” I’m not quite sure what it meant, but it sounded different from his usual way of talking — strange, somehow.
A message came saying he was leaving work. Between short replies like that, the day was quietly winding down.
The news today said the KOSPI dropped 4.5% while SK Hynix jumped 13%. Such a swing within a single day — it made me wonder if a person’s heart can waver that much within a day too.
He said Gangnam still felt unfamiliar. I wonder — is the answer to unfamiliarity always just growing used to it, or is simply enduring it enough? I still don’t know.
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