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Mina kept a tiny notes app like some people keep a lucky coin.
Nothing fancy. No perfect system. Just little scraps:
- “Dad laughed when the cat stole his sock.”
- “Order oat milk next time.”
- “Idea: a story where the hero is a sticky note.”
On busy days, she wrote in fragments. On quiet days, she reread them like postcards from versions of herself.
One winter, her friend Jae went through a rough break-up and started saying he couldn’t remember what he liked anymore. Mina didn’t give him advice. She just slid her phone across the table.
“Want to see something weirdly comforting?”
She opened a folder called Small Proofs.
There were months of tiny entries—nothing dramatic or curated. But together, they formed a soft, undeniable shape: a life that had been lived on purpose.
Jae laughed at one line:
“Bought fancy bread. Felt like a medieval prince.”
Then he went quiet and said, “This is… nice. It’s like you saved your days from disappearing.”
That night, Mina added a new note:
“Keeping notes is a way of being kind to future you.”
Weeks passed. Jae started his own list. At first, it was practical—appointments, groceries. Then it turned human:
“Sunlight hit the kitchen floor like a spotlight.”
“I’m not okay yet, but I am here.”
“Remember this song.”
Spring arrived with the kind of ordinary magic that’s easy to miss if you don’t look twice. Mina was walking home when her phone buzzed.
A message from Jae:
“Today I laughed without pretending. Wrote it down so I won’t doubt it later.”
Mina stopped on the sidewalk, smiling at nothing in particular.
She opened her notes and typed:
“Notes are not just memory. They are mercy.”
And in that quiet moment she understood the real beauty of keeping notes:
Not to trap life in amber
but to leave yourself a trail of lanterns
for the days you need help finding the way back.