210409 #LEETEUK's Closing Ment—he read a part of the book, with the intention of giving us strength and courage.

"'To you who worries a lot: do not be anxious. You've been doing your best diligently, so everything will work out.

"'Being overly eager about something will turn into obsession, and if you obsess over something too much, it will turn into worries. Worrying wouldn't help you get what you want; it just gives you a heavy and anxious heart.

"'While worrying moderately may motivate / challenge a person, excessive worrying may shatter one's dreams. Don't be depressed or frustrated, thinking about how things might not go according to how you want them to. There's a saying—too much is worse than too little.

"'Don't lose heart even if you feel unsatisfied. What's scarier than falling short is trembling from anxiety.'

Everyone, please do not worry. Okay?

"I'm also the type of person who worries a lot. I worry a lot such that, once I fall into it, I keep worrying about it over and over again. I tend to fall into [worries] continuously... but you can't really solve them, right? It's going to work out well, everyone.

"So the worries you have right now, worry about them the day after tomorrow. Because it will all work out.

"Also, however you look at it, the worries and concerns you have makes you think you're having the hardest time of your life. Right now, you may be thinking 'Oh, it's too hard I feel like dying. I'd rather die.'

"However, once those times when you can't breathe, when you feel like dying, passes by, you suddenly look back at those and say, 'Oh? I had a really hard time then, though? It was so hard I felt like I wanted to die?'

"And at the time when you look back at those, you'd also say, 'Oh? So I have overcome them? I endured it well, didn't I?' You should look back [at such times] like this.

"Back then, the famous Charlie Chaplin. Do you guys know Charlie Chaplin? He said something like this: 'Life is a tragedy when you look at it closely, but a comedy if you look at it from afar.' Life is a continuous cycle of making choices/decisions.

"Once you decide on something, you have to decide on yet another thing, and so on, so you continuously have a hard time which makes you think "Why is life like this? This life is so hard!" so you feel like this life is a tragedy, but after 10, 20 or 30 years passes by—

"when you look back to the person you were then who was struggling—you'd say, "Ah, right? It was really hard back then. But it was because of those hard times that I am who I am now," and then you're gonna learn more. Right?

"Those things seem to be how that 'Life is a tragedy when you look at it closely, but a comedy if you look at it from afar' saying goes."

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