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Changing Lives and Opening Doors with The Giving Keys

This post is in celebration of Women’s History Month. Throughout March, we’ll be highlighting the stories of women doing extraordinary things around the world.

The Giving Keys (@thegivingkeys) opens doors by employing people who are transitioning out of homelessness. “Our goal is to have everyone feel unique, special and one-of-a-kind,” says actress and singer-songwriter Caitlin Crosby (@caitlincrosby), who founded the jewelry line nine years ago. “I think that we might all feel like keys, sometimes; maybe we feel used, flawed, discarded. Each key reminds us that we can persevere and be resilient.”

Favorite Korean Dramas: Reply 1988 (2015)

DeokSun developed feelings for both Sunwoo and Junghwan after she had other people tell her that they (Sunwoo and Junghwan) liked her. She never “fell in love” with either of them. She had feelings for them because she thought that they had feelings for her. When Dongryong had a talk with DeokSun about her worries that no one likes her and he said that it didn’t matter who liked her, the only thing that mattered was who she likes. After that talk I noticed that her feelings for Junghwan went away because she realized that she didn’t have romantic feelings for him, she only liked the idea of Junghwan liking her.

She ultimately ended up with Taek because with Taek, she fell in love with him by herself without anyone telling her that Taek liked her too.

DeokSun realized that she liked Taek when she was so bothered that Taek canceled on her. It made her sad that there was a chance that she wasn’t as important to Taek as Taek was important to her. When she thought about that, that was when she started discovering that all the care and special attention she’d give to Taek was because she was slowly falling for him without knowing herself.

And like Junghwan said, love, fate, and destiny, are all about timing. It just happened that DeokSun and Taek’s timing were right because they confessed at the right time, when both of they were mature adults and not immature teens who had no experiences about love and life. Their timing was just right, not too early (like when DeokSun tried confessing to Sunwoo), and not too late (like when Junghwan decided to show his feelings to DeokSun during the movie/concert scene)

“Time will always flow. Everything will pass by. Everything will age. That might be why youth is beautiful. It shines, blindingly bright, for just an instant. But to it, you can never go back. A time when many tears were shed. The time of my youth was like that as well.”