Thanks to the echo of the sentence, ‘Treat your family as if you were an honored guest,’ Insa was able to maintain her composure every time she dealt with her husband and two children for a while. Even though it was the same situation, I reacted differently than before because I changed my mindset. As I was able to control my angry feelings at the moment of ‘outrage’ and think again about why the children behaved like that, I realized that expressing emotions can also be learned and trained. As I became more at ease, my relationships with people at work became easier. They said ‘everything is going well’ and everything seemed to be going smoothly.
Except for just one person, Manager Park.
When Manager Park did not handle the work related to his acquaintance as instructed, he tackled every single task that he was responsible for. He used to treat In-saeng with a sharp gaze, asking, ‘How honest and moral are you?’ Manager Park’s instructions were to use materials from an acquaintance’s company, but Inja, who had had trouble with similar things in the past, carefully declined the request. Manager Park used the expression ‘request’, but for Insa to accept it, it was no different from ‘request’. One day, an acquaintance of mine showed up as invited to a department dinner and it was quite burdensome to pay for the meal.
The person named Ji-in was a middle-aged woman who was a director who sold construction materials. Not only did the extravagantly decorated exterior not match the construction materials, but I also did not like the fact that sales were based on friendship with superiors rather than promoting products such as the excellence of the materials. Insa considered mutual trust as important, whether it was family, friends, co-workers, or business partners. This is because the responsibility for choices and decisions in everything is yours.
‘Okay, how can I get along smoothly with everyone? ‘One of the two will move during the next greeting.’
Whenever Manager Park tackles him over something trivial, Insa seems to be used to it by now and ends up thinking about it. On days like that, I relieve my stress by gossiping about Manager Park to Sangtae at the dinner table. It is a small pleasure from the Son of Man.
It is a dazzling day in the sweltering heat.
After having lunch with my team members, we were all on our way into the office holding a cold Americano in one hand, when Insa broke away from the group and stopped by a pharmacy for a moment. I cautiously bought a <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/enthusiast-launches-doom-and-skyrim-on-electronic-pregnancy-test/” title=”Enthusiast Launches DOOM and Skyrim on Electronic Pregnancy Test”>pregnancy test, looking around to see if anyone around me would see it. My heart pounded as I quickly put the pregnancy test into my pants pocket. I didn’t commit a crime, but my heart was pounding because I thought, what if two lines appear? It’s because of anxiety.
‘I’ve been feeling tired and sensitive lately, so my menstrual cycle has become irregular.’
‘But you’ve never been a week later than scheduled, right?’
‘What if there are two lines?’
I was confused by various thoughts and curious about the results of the pregnancy test, but I didn’t take the test right away. Because I knew that first morning urine was the most accurate.
‘Ji-ing~’
At that moment, the vibration of a text message from her husband Sangtae helped Insa stop her complicated thoughts.
[나 오늘 교육 일찍 끝날것 같은데 민서랑 민찬이 내가 하원 시킬게]
I couldn’t be happier than this to be sending my two children to the hospital!
The son of man suddenly wanted to enjoy the freedom he had gained. Since my husband gets off work early, should Kyung-sun and Jeong-yoon meet up? Think about it. When I suggested a quick meeting in the group chat room where the three of us were gathered, everyone said it was okay, saying they didn’t have any plans.
Afternoon work started, but Insa couldn’t concentrate.
It was because I was excited about meeting my friends and deciding where to eat and what to eat, but I also kept getting nervous about the pregnancy test I had thrown in my bag.
I bought it to do it anyway, but I thought it would be easier to try it quickly. I locked the bathroom door and opened the pregnancy test box. I sat on the toilet, urinated, held the tester, and closed my eyes. I took a deep breath and cleared my head. When I opened my eyes and looked at the tester, I saw two lines clearly visible: the test line and the control line. There were two lines so clear that I didn’t even need to urinate in the morning.
The Son of Man’s hair turned white and tears welled up in his eyes.
I have to take childcare leave again just as I’m about to be promoted…
Now that Minseo and Minchan have grown up and are a bit more comfortable, I have to raise a newborn again…
I can’t sleep at night and have to clean up poopy diapers and make baby food…
The man and the woman met and had a daughter and a son, forming a perfect family of four, and the son of man thought that he had planned his life well. But the third child was unplanned and unplanned.
For Inja, who had lived a planned life, the two lines on the pregnancy test were the result of carelessness.
