군대를 전역했던 2018년 여름 제자리로 돌아왔음을 실감할 때쯤 문득 머릿속에 떠올랐던 말이 있습니다.
‘그동안 어떻게 지냈니?’
밖으로 표현할 용기가 없어서 휴대폰 메모장에 적어놓고 현실에 휩쓸려 묻고 지내다 새로운 시작을 하게 된 즈음 다시 꺼내보고 한 문장으로 적어놓았던 글에 담긴 많은 감정들을 그때의 나에게, 지금의 그대들에게 들려주고 싶었습니다.
"Someday, the words I wanted to say to myself...
Now, they’re the words I want to say to you."
In the summer of 2018, after completing my military service, I began to feel that I had finally returned to where I belonged. Around that time, a question suddenly came to mind:
"How have you been?"
I didn‘t have the courage to say it out loud, so I simply typed it into my phone’s memo app. Then, caught up in reality, I let it sit there for a long time.
But when I found myself at the start of something new, I looked at it again—just that one sentence. And I realized how many feelings were tucked inside those words.
Now, I want to share them—with the me of that time, and with you, right now.