Our Happy Time (A Book Review)

 

5 stars from me. No doubt. 

No wonder millions were sold. I didn’t know it was a bestseller when I included this in my TBR a long time ago. Found it on BookDepository once, and I was left intrigued by the synopsis but took me long enough before I finally dived into it.

It’s been awhile since I read a Korean literature and reading this book, I was being swept over with the remembrance of how Korean lit books are capable of making me feel things that no other authors capable of.

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His situations of life made him think he was the way he acted but we know it’s never the case with anyone. And how saying this, reminds me of the line from When the Stars Prostrated;

“People mold themselves to become a reflection of how the world sees them.”

Honestly, it left me deeply upset over his decision. Sure, he could think of it as an act of salvation but, how I wished he fight harder for his life. It wasn't going to be easy for him because lack of proof or whatsoever but it left me feeling crestfallen. 

But in a way, he was made to believe he deserved what he was going through, how life makes him think he acts in certain ways because that what he is without realizing the way he acted was only an act of survival under such dire circumstances.

And I was thinking, if we could blame someone, who should be blamed?

Asking that, makes me think of how truly things happened for some reasons.

But after all, it seems to be like it’s all worth it at the end of his life.