Harinlee Stories

Life has turned adulthood into a series of actions instead of a state of being. Millennials struggled to complete their never-ending to-do lists as opposed to their own fulfillments and satisfactions. Anxiety has never been so pervasive. He's a chaser; with a decision fatigue. ("You look like what my next song's about.") She's a keeper; with an errand paralysis. ("Don't get close. I'll turn you into a poem.") The change itself that never changes has turned into a full-circle of relentless change. But that night, there's no changing mind after finding each other. In between chasing and keeping, as they do everything right but still get left, stability is nearly an unattainable wishful thinking. In which a ghostwriter (who used to dream of being a professional novelist) bumped into a stranger who happened to travel the world only to write new lyrics. Her name was Lafayette, and his name was Noah. And, that stranger was called Hyunjae.