★ A new essay collection after three years from Ha Seung-wan, a healing writer who has resonated with over 100,000 readers. With gentle warmth, it embraces the unspoken feelings buried deep in the heart, reminding you that having survived countless hard moments, you are far stronger than you realize.
★ Divided into four emotional sections, using everyday, gentle prose to softly dissolve mental exhaustion.
★ Light in length with soft, short sentences—perfect for fragmented emotional healing reading during commutes or before bed.

You always feel that your path has been more winding than others', that your life has lagged behind. We blame ourselves for everything, relentlessly criticizing our own unique selves.

Ha Seung-wan, a healing writer who has moved 100,000 readers, returns after three years with a new essay collection. This book gently embraces the feelings hidden deep inside—those hard to voice to others—and softly reminds you: having survived countless difficult moments, you are far more resilient than you think.

The slow steps, the clumsy choices, the wavering heart—they are all fragments that make up who you are. The years that have passed have stacked into the person you are today—you who have fallen and risen again, who have kept going even when you were on the verge of giving up. Even if the world has not seen your efforts, you must trust yourself completely.

Ha Seung-wan

She has always lingered on the moments where emotions have paused in the past, carefully tracing the delicate scenes and feelings that are so easily overlooked, and turning them into words. She does not set out to tell special stories, but instead peeks into the inner world hidden within ordinary days. Pausing briefly at the end of each day, she treasures every present moment and continues to write.

002 Between Unspoken Feelings

Part One: I Want to Embrace Myself Properly Too
010 Even If Just a Faint Glimmer of Light
013 A Story That Means Everything to Someone
015 Walking Through a Stranger Called Myself
018 The Moment You Suddenly Realize Happiness Isn't Far Away
019 The Sum of All Wounds
022 The Value of an Ordinary Day
024 I Want to Embrace Myself Properly Too
025 The Lingering Warmth That Lasts Longer Than Words
027 The Heart Hidden Beneath a Smile
029 Growing Up
031 The Other Side of That Year's Wall
033 Getting Through One Day Will Give You the Answer
034 Words I Want to Say to Myself Today
035 Beauty Is Accumulated Little by Little
037 Longing for Solitude, Yet Afraid of Loneliness
039 A Confession in Silent Days
040 Sleepless Dawns
043 The Sinking Heart
046 Collapse Always Comes Silently
047 Between Calm and Turmoil
049 Shaping Your Own Life
052 How to Get Along Well with Yourself
053 Some Days Just Pass Quietly By
056 Getting Better, Little by Little

Part Two: Even If Your Heart Falls Apart, You Are Still Precious
062 Everyone Has Their Own Life
065 Even If Your Heart Falls Apart, You Are Still Precious
067 Understanding Each Other's Worlds
068 The One Who Stays Quietly by Your Side
071 A Mindset for Long-Lasting Relationships
072 Connections Linked by Faint Light
075 Perhaps Today Is the Last
079 The Warmth of Absence
081 The Day We Meet Again
082 An Emotion Called Longing
083 When You Meet Someone New
087 The One Who Cries in Front of a Trash Can
089 A Heart That Doesn't Chew on Old Wounds
090 One Sentence That Can Destroy a Relationship
091 The Sorrow Hidden in the Heart
094 Smoothing Out the Creases of Memory
097 Stars Always Stay Where They Are
101 A Heart That Has Learned to Say No
104 Those Who Quietly Let Go, and Those Who Quietly Persist
106 A Distance That Still Holds a Glimmer of Light
108 Relationships That Don't Require Forced Effort
109 Keeping the Heart from Tilting Off Balance

Part Three: In the Name of Gentle Time
114 Falling on Wet Shoulders
116 Every Day You've Endured Is Everything
120 It's Okay to Put Down Some of the Weight
121 Don't Forget the Small Joys at Your Feet
123 The Gift That Calmness Brings
125 Small Gestures That Speak for Us
127 The Traits of Gentle People
128 The Connections That Pass Through My Life
131 Fragments of Youth
133 Why Not Look Out the Window for a Moment
137 A Day No One Knows About
139 The Thought You Hold Onto When Your Heart Falls Apart
140 The Comfort a Single Flower Brings
143 The Intention That Fills the Empty Space
145 Words That Make Us Smile
146 In the Name of Gentle Time
147 The Weight of Small Things
150 Stay in Your Deep Night
153 May I Also Be Kind to Myself
155 Immersed in Happiness for a Long Time
158 A Day That Ends Hotter Than Summer
159 Small Things to Complete Today
161 A Promise in a Brief Greeting
166 May You Not Have to Be Alone

Part Four: Slow in Step, Yet Still Shining Within
166 Memories Fill a Life
168 It's Because You Missed Something That You Meet It
171 The Romance of a Starless Night
174 Belief Lies Only in the Choice of the Heart
177 Live Without Needing to Be Defined
180 Words Only Understood Years Later
181 A Place You Can Always Return To
184 From Pushing Yourself to Excel, to Simply Wanting to Live Well
186 Clumsy Words Will Eventually Become a Story
189 Sorrow Is the Flesh and Blood of the Soul
191 Questions That Don't Need Answers
193 Thoughts That Surge Before Speaking
194 Criticism Paves the Road, Accusation Builds Walls
196 A Parked Car
198 Tying Heartstrings to the Keys
202 The Breath Behind the Noise
204 Collisions Create Scenery
206 Slow in Step, Yet Still Shining Within
208 Slowly Accepting Time
211 The Trace Left by the Wind
213 The Layered Ripples of Emotion
217 Life Is Always to Be Continued
220 The Lost Path, the Unforgettable Days
222 Where the Light Stays
224 When the Thought of Giving Up Arises
225 Believe in the View at the End of Darkness
228 Cherish All That Flows Slowly
231 Dawn Feelings Are Often Hard to Remember