Hello, this is Ditto.

We always praise the dazzling achievements of broad daylight. Believing that only the time spent standing under the sun without a shadow is valuable, we hurriedly turn on the lights when night falls, feeling regretful that the day is over. We fear the dark and dismiss it as something negative.

However, the painter Vincent van Gogh confessed the enchantment of the night in a letter to his brother Theo as follows:
"I often think that the night is much more alive and much more richly colored than the day. (...) Whenever I gaze at the stars in the night sky, my soul dreams."

Come to think of it, the time when seeds quietly take root in the earth, and the time when a wounded beast crouches in a cave to heal its wounds, is not during the broad daylight, but in the pitch-black night. It is also within the embrace of the night that our brainwaves settle and our energy replenishes.

Only in the deepest darkness does the starlight from the distant universe clearly catch our eyes. The tunnels of hardship and depression that visit our lives may also be times of comfort and restoration, where our souls briefly close their eyes and take their deepest rest.

If your life has passed the day and is now dwelling in the middle of the night, are you afraid, thinking of it as a harsh darkness?

[Today's Poem]

Counting the Stars at Night / Yun Dong-ju

The sky where the seasons pass by
Is filled with autumn.
Without a single worry,
I feel as though I could count all the stars in the autumn.
The stars engraved one by one in my heart,
The reason I cannot count them all right now,
Is because morning comes too easily,
Because tomorrow night still remains,
And because my youth is not yet spent.
A star for memory and
A star for love and
A star for loneliness and
A star for longing and
A star for poetry and
A star for mother, mother,
Mother, I try calling out a beautiful word for each star.

Rather than pushing away that quiet and warm darkness, could you willingly pull it to cover your weary shoulders like a blanket?
The night has come not to break you down, but to fully embrace you.

I hope you find your very own, brightest star in the deep darkness.

This was Ditto.