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…wouldn't they want to know more about it? They must have been very curious. But I liked to write and thought that if I didn't end up as a writer then whatever happens happens. So I continued writing and eventually became a writer They might also receive the question that is posed to me now, "When did you decide to become a writer?" Just like a ferry that reaches the banks without a ferryman, as you live, you eventually arrive at a destination — the future. And it arrives naturally even if one does not do anything. When this distant future arrives, there is something we must all do — rewrite the narrative of the past to match the ending.

(T/N: an excerpt from the essay "사공이 없는 나배가 닿는곳"/"Where a ferry without a ferryman goes" by writer Kim Youngha. It is part of his essay collection "단 한 번의 삶" /"One and Only Life" )