Carrot Cake: My Ways to Make the Sweetness of Life Korean Essays

-Book Introduction

-What is your carrot cake? The moment I need comfort, it will soothe me A story I want to tell to you who need life tips

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The tension of everyday life cannot always be put down, and there will be countless moments in which even a steely iron man needs to soothe his mind. If so, you need life tips to soothe yourself the moment you need comfort. Something like ‘carrot cake’ that makes you feel better when you think about it, fills it with moderately healthy sweetness, and gives you friendly comfort! If you have a carrot cake that will help you endure the difficulties of this day and this moment with joyful anticipation, wouldn't it be possible to walk confidently even if you are shaken?

This book is a theme anthology with texts, pictures, and photos by seven authors. It is a story of seven light or heavy, funny or sad stories that became my own carrot cake whenever I went through difficult and difficult things. Each writer conveys one thing that makes carrot cake in life, and conveys the meaning and comfort it has.

Find your own carrot cake and put it up like a street lamp in your daily life. Then, whenever shaking comes, you will be less anxious, and you will be able to lean on it and have the courage to go farther. "Carrot Cake" will cheer you up on your day, struggling today, and will be a small but necessary hint to live your life.

-Index

My Bittersweet Medicines _ Song Wol-hwa

Whip, cetirizine 14 Sweet and bitter rice, levothyroxine 20 Pink Sausage and Old-fashioned Whole Chicken, Statin 25 It's okay to be slow, propranolol 30 My dear depression, escitalopram 34

Masterpiece of Cake _ Son Sucheon

Aren't you Banksy? 45 Between red and blue fire 49 very petty quarrel 51 Giving a book I wrote as a gift is 55 contemplating Russia 63 About old age 67 bittersweet 71

Handstand _ Lee Soo-jin

Pandemic, everyday isolation 80 84 Small but hopeful 86 89 91 Struggling privately in the epic of adversity 94

Carrot Cake on the Road _ Soonchang Hong

Simsimae 100 sweet kiss 102 Patriot Boy 104 Wasted 106 Village Bus 108 how is it! Are you scared? 110 flowers and old people 112 Shh! 114 Making a living 116 Sales department morning standing meeting 118 do you pick? 120

Banging the mind _ Kim Bo-hyun

mind farting 126 The Future of Thought 131 Mengchungman 135 Study to live well 138 screwed up 142 Friday night to save 145 149

Thank you for anything _ Famous Eun

Thoughts on Voluntary Poverty 156 Why You Shouldn't Study Hard 161 Mother's Hand 167 well 173

The red inside of me _ Lee Kyung-hee

186 What was the magical power of red tomatoes? 189 Standing only in front of a red rose 193

epilogue 196