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In this day and age when the word ‘taste’ is in the spotlight and is consumed in large quantities, this word may not leave much of an impression. It’s similar to the word ‘love’. However, just as the word love, which sometimes seems to exist without stimulation like air, ultimately does not lose its noble value and takes our lives to a new level, I think the word ‘taste’ has the same quality. ‘Having a small space filled entirely with my taste’. This may be a phrase I’ve heard many times, but it’s one of my cherished dreams since I was in high school. So after I entered college and got used to school life to some extent, I started decorating a small room in my parents’ house in my own way. (From then on, I had a vague longing for the spaces featured in Today’s House.) A few years later, I started working at a furniture company that I liked, and at the same time, I moved out of my parents’ house and started living on my own. At that time, I was living alone for the first time and was very excited about decorating my space, so I uploaded a photo to Instagram and Today’s House without much thought, and luckily, it caught the attention of the person in charge, and I ended up publishing housewarming content. Since that one incident, two years have passed, and there have been many amazing and thankful things. While working at Ohaus, I received pretty flowers and heartfelt letters every month, took a class to make flower bouquets at home, connected with people I may have never met in my life just because we had similar tastes, and had my space and writings published in a magazine. I felt that those things were amazing even when I was experiencing them, but looking back after finishing my Ohaus activities, it’s even more so. Today, I went to the Moving Day exhibition to commemorate the end of Ohaus and the beginning of something new. I was touched by the hosts who welcomed me with sincerity as soon as they saw my face, and although the exhibition planning and the space were all wonderful, I think what I remember most in the end were the people. I felt a great sense of inspiration from how sincere and passionate the staff at Today’s House are about this work, and I felt empathy and value from the stories of members who are grateful that Today’s House has discovered them, just like I experienced. This makes me believe in the power of taste and records once again. When content with taste accumulates, it becomes personal branding, money, great opportunities… all of this is good, but the most important thing for us to consistently record our tastes is that we ‘don’t lose our dreams’ and ‘become people who constantly dream.’ That’s a sentence I came up with while wrapping up my Ohaus activities and listening to the live session during today’s exhibition. I always have many interests and things I want to do, so I honestly don’t know how my work will change in the future. So sometimes I worry about myself. However, one thing that is very, very clear and clear is that no matter where I am or what I do, I will be someone who loves my space, consistently explores my tastes, and records them. Because that time, like the word love, makes my life more beautiful. Because it makes me stronger. I end this short diary by rewriting my writing that was published in the last page of O Magazine in the winter of 22. “That’s why I want to say that luck is not something that comes suddenly one day, but something that you discover and create every day. I recommend that you consistently record the good moments and inspirations in your daily life, even if it’s a diary that only you can open. As each record piles up, that record will bring your life one step closer to luck.” ⠀ #Hee-kyung’s Independent Diary #O-Haus #오하우스무빙데이