Finding the answer.
I guess I’ve been trying to find the answer of this complicated life.
I think my life has been a long journey of finding the answer, or at least trying to find the path to the answer.
Tea ceremony for myself, in the early morning of june. Seoul. ©Jason.
When I was at the tea fair, I first saw this mini teaware set. It was clean, white, quiet, but beautiful. I think simple beauty is the hardest form of beauty. This wasn’t boring white—this was simple beauty.
I brew tea every morning on this set. On the mornings I don’t feel like starting my day. So I boil the water, scoop some tea leaves, and put them in the pot. Then I do the ceremony. The tea ceremony for myself. The celebration, the ritual, the meditation, however people call it.
©Jason
I guess I’ve been trying to fix my life, find the answer, and start living my life like a new person. Over the last few years, I slowly realized life doesn’t really work that way. So I decided to just boil some water and make tea in the morning.
It won’t give me the answer, but maybe it gives me a subtle hint of confidence that I might find the answer along the way somehow, someday. So I made tea this morning. Before that, I boiled the water first.
I guess I’ve been trying to boil some water.
Jason.
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Jason is the operator of Heesum, a traditional tea room in Seoul offering an authentic Korean tea ceremony experience. Before joining the tea room, he worked in journalism and served as a writer for a Fortune 10 company. He is also an avid painter, photographer, and lifelong tea enthusiast. If you book a Korean tea ceremony in Seoul at Heesum, Jason will be there to host the session alongside Songna, the certified tea master who leads the ceremony with warmth and expertise.
