Palpitations: 1월 2012

At the start of this year and during the Lunar New Year celebration period, people have been sending these texts known as 용문자, or Dragon-Text in English.

Here goes:

뿔 뿔

뿔

이 마

머 \ / 리

머 ㅁ ㅁ 리

머 ㅡ 리

머리다

용이다용

꼬리다

꼬리

꼬

리

꼬

리 리 꼬

꼬 꼬 리

리 리

꼬

[출처] 용문자|작성자 HKS 세츠나

It is a text that is designed to show an animated dragon moving upward.
People have been sending this text to each other wishing good luck for each other next year. I thought it was quite funny as well until I saw an episode of 감사합니다, a comedy show.

In general, this comedy show makes puns out of the situations in which people feel thankful for their good luck. For instance, there is an episode in which a boyfriend finds a dead fly in expensive meal that he bought on a date with his girlfriend. The boyfriend is secretly very 'thankful' to the dead fly because he was worried about the price of the meal, but no longer has to pay it since a dead fly was found inside it.

The day before Lunar New Year, I was mindlessly watching television when 감사합니다 came on. I was intrigued that the topic was the Dragon-Text. In the show, the comedian thanked the Dragon-Text because he was able to wish many many many friends on his cell phone good luck without really bothering to think what kind of good-luck text to send to each of them. Dragon Text made it easier for people to wish good-luck for others without thinking about relationship with others on personal level.

I was mindlessly watching that show when I began thinking.."Is that really something to be thankful of?"

Putting the show aside, I took out my cellphone and scanned my phone-book. More than hundreds of friends I couldn't really make any real personal comments- I had nothing person-to-person with that person. There were some people in my phone book that I had no idea who it was- how was I going to wish good-luck to them?

Yeah, it seems that Dragon Text really is convenient.
But once again, is it something to be thankful of?

After that little search on my cellphone, I realized that to someone, I could be the unknown guy; the person that somehow disappeared from that person's memory and leaving only the phone number behind.
I looked at my inbox, and looked at all the Dragon Texts that I had received. What if they all didn't really know me? I mean, I cared and knew most of the people who sent me that Dragon Text, but what if to them, I was worth nothing more than a 'Dragon Text'?

That got me a bit offended and somewhat embarrassed- I meant nothing more to them than a Dragon Text.

So somehow, that comedy show combined with my thinking too much ruined my day and
got me a bit upset.

But can you really throw off that feeling? What if that person who sent you that Dragon text doesn't really know you? How could you tell if someone really knows you or not?
How in the worth could you tell how much you are worth to that person?
For all you know, you could perhaps mean nothing more than a single Dragon Text.

Palpitations

2012년 1월 24일 화요일

Insomnia

Dragon-Text