The Cloud Dream of the Nine
Could the success and desires I am desperately chasing right now just be a fleeting dream?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Seongjin's story—reaching the summit of a glittering life only to realize that all of it was a passing cloud—gives me a strange and quiet catharsis. When I first read this novel, I dismissed it as worn-out nihilism. But its true message is not that "nothing matters." On the contrary, it is the paradox that precisely because we know everything is as fleeting as a dream, we can live lightly, almost playfully, without being crushed by the weight of the present moment. Few classics are better at lifting the heaviness from a life.
"Wealth and glory are like a fleeting spring dream; where will they be when you wake?"Kim Man-jung, The Cloud Dream of the Nine
"부귀영화는 한바탕 봄꿈과 같으니, 깨고 나면 어디에 있겠는가."
🌱Apply It Today
Write down the worry that stresses you most today. Then read it aloud: "This too is a dream that will be forgotten ten years from now."
