Chapter 290 – Chapter 290. Thoughts I Had While Working While Browsing the Store
“Fiddler.”
I looked at my mother.
“A violinist? Didn’t you have one in your mother’s time?”
“What? This is the testimony!”
Mom laughed and said.
“Violins came into our country in the early 1900s. It was only in the old days that buying a piano was popular, so people didn’t buy violins often.”
“Ah…”
Mom said calmly.
“But what does that feed you? In the meantime, you have to earn even a penny more to live on. It’s best for a couple to have a stable job and work both ways.”
I saw my father’s side seat from the back seat.
For some reason, her mother’s words seemed to snipe her father.
It is said that it is best for both husband and wife to work at a stable job and both work, but this is because the father is working at a store and the mother is also going out like this.
Back in the day, Dad worked for a company.
Mom seemed to be thinking that maybe she would have been better off if her dad had gone to the company as she was.
I wasn’t the only one who felt that her mom was sniping at her dad, her dad told her mom to tell her.
“Is the company that easy? How long will you live like that? In the end, it’s all up to you to climb the ladder when your business goes well.”
“Hoho, that’s cool, so I got married.”
“Hmm, what?”
Mom said with a smile.
“I don’t think so, but you have passion. That’s cool.”
“Ah~, Jinhyeok is there too, what are you talking about!”
My father’s voice rose, but he didn’t seem to be in a bad mood at all.
Come to think of it, my parents seem to have met very well.
In particular, I think the father met her mother well.
Usually, if you have a different opinion, you say your opinion is right and the other person’s opinion is wrong.
I feel it more because the national situation is dizzy these days, but especially when I look at places like news bulletin boards, people who have different ideas from themselves are almost framed as traitors.
Or they go through with their thoughts and give endless instructions.
I think it’s hard to see that as a good thing.
Even if we have different opinions, I think a life where we respect each other and join forces together to walk towards a place with more potential for development is good.
In that sense, the mother is quite understanding.
This mother’s influence may also be the reason why I never look only at appearance when I look at a woman.
Ah, that doesn’t mean that mothers aren’t good looks, just the opposite.
It is safe to say that the reason why I am a handsome man is that I inherited half and half of my father’s and mother’s genes.
Anyway, when I look at women, I tend to look for attractive women, not just pretty ones.
I had such experiences while having sex with many beauties.
It’s really pretty, but there are cases where the personality is quite angular.
In that case, no matter how pretty it is, I have a hard time accepting it.
As a result, when I look at a woman, I tend to focus on personality.
When I was thinking about that, my mom talked to my dad.
“Honey, but do you remember that? Perhaps because we resemble each other, Jinhyeok also had some talent in this field.”
“Ah. I did. But isn’t that natural? It’s heredity, heredity.”
“I still don’t know how much I feel sorry for Jinhyeok. When I was young, I made him not play the piano more. Back then, there were times when it was difficult at home.”
“A story from when…”
Father slurred his words.
However, I felt sorry for his father’s words.
It seemed that my parents still had it in their hearts.
‘Piano…’
I’ve been playing the piano since I was little.
It wasn’t until Youngjae.
But it took quite a while.
I managed to play Bach Inventions, Chopin Etudes, Beethoven Sonatas, etc.
I didn’t know at the time because I was young, but thinking about it later, I think it was because there was a time when it was difficult for my family to make me go to music school.
There is a period when money suddenly goes out of the house, well, it is quite possible in some houses.
About that, my parents are sorry, but I am not.
As we rode, I stretched out a bit in the back seat, as if to straighten my upper body, then relaxed again, then spoke to my mother, who was sitting in the front seat.
“Mom, I think so.”
I spoke.
“Of course, I haven’t lived long, but there are a lot of people like that in my life. It’s when someone does something. . He doesn’t appreciate the kindness he has received so far, but he resents not being able to receive it in the future?”
I had a serious talk.
“I think that’s wrong. You should be grateful for the favors you’ve received so far, and get annoyed because you can’t receive them in the future? I don’t think it makes sense. But I’ve seen too many of them.”
That was my idea.
It is not a line in the movie that you know it is a right if the favor continues.
It’s fortunate if you know that it’s a right, but you can have a heart of resentment that the favor doesn’t continue more than that.
Rather, it creates a worse situation than before the favor was provided.
I continued.
“So, in my opinion, it’s only natural that I’m grateful for the fact that I grew up this well with the help of my parents, and even though I didn’t go to any piano major, there were those times when I enjoyed playing for quite a long time. I think it was a very long time. ? Why did you send me to the academy for that time? I am grateful.”
When I said that, Mom seemed to silently steal her eyes slightly with the sleeve of her dress.
Dad and Mom were silent for a while.
Even if I was really okay and good, my parents seemed to be sorry for me.
‘No, I’m really fine and I’m grateful. My parents are very sorry.’
I’m rather happy with it now.
There are two reasons for that.
First of all, I made a lot of good memories during my university days.
If I had played the piano, I would have been completely immersed in the piano and there would have been very few memories like that.
Okay. I really enjoyed playing the piano.
But looking back now, I think the happy memories of playing with the beauties have become more beautiful memories for me.
So, I want to make good memories like this in the future.
Second, I think there are things I have gained because my current life has become difficult.
If I played the piano and followed the set route and ran the road to success, I might have become like a flower in a greenhouse.
Because it was difficult, the things I gained seem to be a bit mind-related in particular.
I realized that earning an income in this world is considerably more difficult than I thought, so I knew that I had to live more intensely to fall behind in a complacent state of mind.
Maybe that’s why I got high grades in civil service exams before so long.
That I consider a great asset.
I could have suffered greatly if I had looked at the world lightly, but I think it was an opportunity for me to prepare myself mentally.
The tea arrived at the store soon after, and my parents and I opened the store soon after.
And the store business started again.
At my father’s insistence, which continued again, he said he would give me a ride at night after work today, but my mother told me to eat breakfast tomorrow, so I decided to do it.
The store seemed to be doing a little better again than yesterday.
The number of confirmed cases and deaths is increasing day by day, but…
Is it because people are gradually getting used to the fear of corona?
Or is it because I’m a handsome man with a mask, so my face is covered with a mask on the Internet, and I’m handsome, like Nam Jae-eun ordered 11 chickens because of me?
Or both?
In any case, I couldn’t help but feel good about the store doing better.
Even if it did well, it was naturally lacking compared to the past.
Because the number of people going out has decreased, even if there are quite a few deliveries, daily sales have decreased compared to before.
Still, my parents seemed to be satisfied with the fact that the store situation was gradually improving.
-Ding Dong-.
“Yes~!”
I was happy with the ringtone.
This can also be a very strange experience.
I often helped my parents with their work, and I also tried serving as a job at a college or high school.
Same thing.
But the feelings are different.
When I’m working part-time, I feel like I’m on a mission when I hear the ringtone.
Which is not bad
Because you are doing what you are supposed to do.
But when I help my parents with their work, I somehow feel better when I hear the ringtone.
I have an unknown good feeling.
Is this what self-employment feels like?
“One of our red pepper seasoned chicken boneless. And two 500, please.”
“Yes~, one boneless red pepper seasoned chicken and two 500 won, right?”
“Yes!”
Working in the hall is a bit of a refreshing feeling, perhaps because it involves moving the body.
When there are fewer customers, priority is given to bringing water, taking orders, serving food, paying bills, and clearing tables.
At other times, filling napkins, setting cutlery and chopstick holders, washing doors, cleaning lights, picking up trash on the floor, pre-filling water in water bottles and putting them in the refrigerator, adjusting the room temperature, leaving the store to clean the outside for a while, helping the kitchen, etc. Find and do different things.
There are quite a few things like that.
Things you can find and do without someone telling you.
I do all of those things, and in the spare time I stand.
I don’t stand still, but I try to provide more service by looking at the customers’ tables from a distance and refilling them when I see a salad or something like that.
The work itself is the same whether I am a part-time job or the boss’s son.
But the feeling is a bit different.
There is still time to do all these things.
Even if I think of dozens of things I can find and do, there is no choice but to have spare time.
Sometimes I stand and think.
‘Hmm…’
I thought while looking at the hall with the mask on.
Parents’ dreams.
My father dreamed of becoming a singer and my mother a violinist.
My parents seemed very sorry for not letting me do what I wanted to do until the end.
However, it seemed that he forgot what his parents wanted him to do.
Of course, you may think that it is a dream that has passed away.
Like a paper detergent box that has been out on the veranda for a long time and the light has faded, your parents’ dreams may now be just memories of a long time ago about what you wanted to do.
However, I felt a bit sad.
Can’t we live like that?
Why not?
I thought about those things.
-Ding Dong-.
“Yes!”
Intermittently, guests called and I thought a little more while working.
Can’t we live like that?
So do my parents, so do I.
Dad learns to sing, Mom learns to play the violin, and I play with beautiful girls. Can’t we live a life like that?
In order to go there, there is a huge barrier of its own that you have to work first.
Then, how can I finish my work in the shortest possible time and live while doing what I want to do?
Looking at my parents, even though they are old, they still work.
I also decided to become a civil servant and work until retirement.
That resolve was gradually faltering.
It was because I wanted to think about it for once.
If there is a way It seemed that there would be a big pull in income in a short period of time.
I thought that if I quickly raised my lifelong income, I might be able to live while doing the things I want to do along with early retirement.
