Words You Wanna Hear

I recently started watching a new show called Coffee Prince, which often reminds me of Que Sera Sera which I reviewed sometime back. I love the modern love angle it has, sweet but with doses of reality and angst. Overly dramatic, happy or sad stories bore me. I like some realism.

I will do a proper review another day along with some pics but I would like to share some things that the male lead, Han Gyul, said:

“It seems to me that your hundred reasons not to go can’t hold up to the one reason for going. Am I right? I don’t want you to go, either. Thinking of this cafe without you makes me not want to come here every day. It makes me not want to work. I don’t even want to think about not being able to see you. When I was planning to leave for New York, there were times I thought I couldn’t because I’d be haunted by your memory. Do you think I want to send you away? But I want to show you a bigger world.”

“I’ve realized I can’t be responsible for your life. But I can be by your side, watching over you. I’ll take that instead. We may be separated now, but later, much later… when you hold the hand of your first child… when they go off to school… when you marry your children off… Ah, proposing is so embarrassing.”

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This part of the story is that the female lead was offered to go overseas to study but he didn't want to let her go initially. After fights and self contemplation, he finally came to terms with it.

The words are sweet isn't it? I think these are the words most women would want to hear as they hope for their partners to come to terms with their own desires and dreams besides maintaining a relationship.

This is something the modern woman faces. Along with greater education and freedom, many women have come to find themselves in the quandary of wanting to pursue dreams of their own but being prejudiced for being so. Women are still very much expected to give it up for the family, even subtly.

No I am not saying women should give up family. I would love to have my own home too.

Yes, there are aruguments and people who admire the successful career woman. If the woman can balance both, even more wonderful. She would be the epitome of achievement and envy for most women.

No doubt there is a lot more freedom, but in the subtle subconscious layers of societal thinking, it is still a woman who can tend to the home who is more revered - a "proper" woman?