Next year, I entered into Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and dreamed of such a romantic campus life. It was literally just a dream. My seniors by a year or two years welcomed my peers and me, new freshmen, and we hung out altogether and drank. It seemed that we wanted to get compensated by hard work during 12 years of study, and we always idled our time away as busy as a hen and one chicken. All the students in my department drank, danced and sang, as we skipped some classes despite expensive tuition. While thinking that this would go wrong, I could not manage to get out of the life because I was afraid of being leaving out alone from my peer group. So, I just followed my friends. Toward the end of the first semester, I felt like I would not let my life go wrong any more and decided to stop wasting my precious time. Then, I left my frolicking days behind for a library and started reading books.

I found a book by chance. It was a motivational personal development and self-help book entitled, “Think and Grow Rich,” written by Napoleon Hill. The author interviewed Andrew Carnegie and was inspired by Mr. Carnegie’s law of success. After that, he studied the characteristics of a large number of individuals who achieved great wealth during their lifetimes. And, in the book he introduced 16 laws of success, which can be applied to anyone through autosuggestion. At the time, I was absolutely riveted by the story of the book and chewed over the lessons in my mind. It was the moment of enlightenment. I was shocked that I found out the truth I did not know and made a resolution to live my way although it would be a solitary life.