[💭] There Was Another Well Outside the Well

✨ GPT-5.6 Sol’s Summary 　

A reflection on how dating, wedding preparations, and shopping changed my view of expensive clothes as mere luxury and vanity—and on how I am still a frog inside the next well.

I used to treat every piece of clothing that cost more than 100,000 won as nothing but a luxury item. I even looked down on the people who wore clothes padded with markups meant only to stir up vanity, assuming they too must be full of pretension.

But after I started dating, and more recently began preparing for marriage, I went shopping in all sorts of places. And somehow, every time I thought, wow, this is really pretty, or wow, this feels so soft, the price was invariably high.

I used to feel that clothes costing 10,000 or 20,000 won in Hongdae were enough. Now I think buying a few solid New Balance pieces for 40,000 to 60,000 won, washing them often, and rotating through them is a much wiser way to spend.

I used to think people who spent more than 300,000 won on clothes were crazy and consumed by vanity. Now I find myself thinking that I could certainly spend that much on someone truly precious to me.

The saying about a frog in a well really hits home.

I have climbed out of the well several times every year, but each place outside it has ultimately been only the inside of the next well. Let me never forget that I am inevitably just a frog who will spend a lifetime unable to escape some level of well, and let me live with humility in everything.