Story Idea

Story Idea

A story about an immortal woman who has spent her life collecting experiences, wealth, family friendships, extraordinary amounts of knowledge, etc.

Her main conflict would ultimately be the ever flowing stream of time. She wants to die but she never knows when. Seems like there is never a good time for death or talks of it.

She is seeking the answers to her questions and enjoys friendship.

Basically a dramatic comedy about an immortal woman who is seeking closure in the form of being cast into the void of existence. I have started a visual map to brainstorm this. I am thinking that she is initially born in the 1700s and was murdered by her first husband and she believes she is in purgatory or a coma. She takes the strange and heartbreaking opportunity to start her “new” life by herself but quickly sees how lonely and dangerous that is.

COEXISTENCE

by Cho Gi Seok

Dear Mouthwash,

Why must you be so essential to keeping cavities out of my mouth and the bad breath germs away? I know I have to swish you around for sixty seconds at least in my mouth but I hardly can make it past thirty seconds. I sometimes have to do 2 thirty second intervals to achieve the desired results. Even alcohol-free or the "gentle" ones hurt me so much. "Just use the kids mouth wash!" They may say. No. It might be better for the burning and general foul feelings but I cannot stand to use candy flavors to brush my teeth. It feels like sin when I use blue raspberry mouth wash after using sensitivity Colgate. I hate mouth wash but cannot afford a cavity nor do I want one. One day I will learn the truth as to why this happens to me. I will learn why I have my fatal flaw of the hatred of mouthwash.

Regretfully yours,

Me

An Open Letter to Changing Careers

This is an open letter to myself and those finding it difficult to continue in the current career fields we reside in. Personally, I have found a new field that I would like to transition into (data analytics) from the service industry. It has been liberating to have a heading but harsh to know where to start some days. Hopefully those of you who also want to make a career leap can find the strength to look within yourselves and see greatness. I have faith in the world to continue turning but I have to have more faith that it will have me in the right place for growth. Growth is so challenging to instigate, everyone wants to work smarter but sometimes the working harder part has to come with it.

Everyday I get up and do some chores and then try to find data projects or data research that motivates me to learn more when in reality I need to do the actual exercises and pay for the certifications. That is my first few steps and it feels like treading mud somedays to do anything after my regular 9-5 job (really 11-8 most days). Who wants to do data analysis and dishes after serving rich entitled folks? Not I. But part of my problem is I need to learn to build momentum and roll with it instead of lean away from it.

Hard times will come and go but the understanding of a better future for myself and my family is here to stay. It’s gonna take a lot of work and a lot of saying “I don’t wanna do this today” while, in fact, doing this today. It’s okay to not love every aspect of a job or course of study, if everyone did then there would be nothing more to learn. I cannot accept that. There will always be more to learn. 

By this time next year we will all be in a different place and hopefully a more positive and enriched place.

Sincerely, a person lacking motivation but striving for greatness.

One day I will have a hyper fixation in a career and not just a 2008 anime marathon