One of the most reliable ways to improve our mental health is to help others.
After being randomly assigned to do just 3 acts of kindness a week, people felt significantly less depressed, anxious, and lonely.
Lifting others up elevates us too. Giving shows us that we matter.
In the novel 소년이 온다 (2014; ‘Human Acts’, 2016), Han Kang – awarded this year’s #NobelPrize in Literature – employs as her political foundation a historical event that took place in the city of Gwangju, where she herself grew up and where hundreds of students and unarmed civilians were murdered during a massacre carried out by the South Korean military in 1980.
In seeking to give voice to the victims of history, the book confronts this episode with brutal actualisation and, in so doing, approaches the genre of witness literature. Han Kang’s style, as visionary as it is succinct, nevertheless deviates from our expectations of that genre, and it is a particular expedient of hers to permit the souls of the dead to be separated from their bodies, thus allowing them to witness their own annihilation. In certain moments, at the sight of the unidentifiable corpses that cannot be buried, the text harks back to the basic motif of Sophocles’s ‘Antigone’.
@coldestsumm 입학이 더 쉽다면 쉬워서 그때부터 보내는걸로 보이구요 (12년 사립 감당할 수 있는 사람 수가 당연히 더 적을테니). 뉴욕에서 킨더까지 키우면서 한국 교육열 심하다고 하지만 여기도 만만찮고 더하다면 더하네 하는 생각 많이 했거든요. 실리콘 밸리 분위기는 저는 모르고 원트윗이 뉴욕 얘기라서
@coldestsumm 물론 양 국가 입시제도가 달라서 양상이 다르게 나타나는건 맞고 그 차이가 없다는건 아닌데 결국 명문학교 진학을 위한 입시전략이 유치원부터 시작된다는 점에서 대치동이나 뉴욕이나 근본적으로 다를게 있나 하는게 제 의견이라서요. K-12 사립학교들 킨더때만 입학가능한거 아닌데 그때가