I close my eyes as I exhale the cool spring breeze. Feeling the air hit my skin, her face, her smile occupied my mind. As I opened my eyes, my visions were welcomed by the warm color of orange, pink and gray created by the sun setting in the horizon.
I was ready to end everything. Ready to make my body part of the dust again. Ready to end my agony... I was ready to die.
I was ready to leave everything behind until the sun blissfully shimmered upon me. Until a rope was thrown to me and made me hang on it. Until the drastic waves of my ocean calmed and made everything seem to be in slow motion. Until I finally felt what hope is.
She is that sunshine. She is that rope. She is the calmness of my ocean. She is my hope. She was my everything...
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His Reason to Live - Hwang Inyeop Short Story
Short StoryHe's done with life. He planned to end it. He's decided and no one can stop him. Not until she appeared with a smile on her face, offering to be with her for a whole day. A stranger who saw him about to end his life, and now asking for his whole day...
