Beauty & Practicality - Saeran
Saeran loved his grandfather. This has always been a fact ever since their first conversation on that laptop screen almost two years ago. His grandfather taught him a lot; about gardening and about life. Saeran loved their talks on the weekends, when grandfather had the time.
However, there was one distressing fact that his mom had always stressed to him about his grandfather—he didn't care for beauty or art, the only thing that mattered was that it was practical and that it worked. The older man had only ever grown things he could eat and everything he had ever built—were things to be used.
Saeran was different, he liked flowers and beautiful things. Things didn't always need to be useful, because it's existence was happiness in itself—that was what Saeran wanted to believe. He liked to think that was what mom in believed too.
As Saeran watched grandfather carefully amending the soil around the lily of the valley, Saeran knew how much his grandfather returned his love. A practical man like grandfather would never do something so unnecessary. It filled Saeran with affection and confidence, because the world is just too beautiful to always be practical and one day Saeran would make his grandfather see that. He was sure of it.
AN.
In some of my previous chapters I used Vietnamese terms and words, Korean terms as well. I also used italics as a means to show a change in different languages. Why? Because I felt language is important. There are some words and terms that in English just felt limited.
I realized that one of the Vietnamese words wasn't being displayed correctly, an accent was missing turning Dad into Bowl. T^T
It made me decide to just forgo any Vietnamese words other than names, since the accents for the words can change the meaning completely. I will still use some Korean terms of endearments, there really is no English equivalent.
