Of Scribblings On Empty Pages

The Korean the word for notebook is 공책
It literally means “empty book” 📙
A brand new notebook is empty until you fill it with your thoughts and creations… there is a certain poetry in the meaning of things.

empty notebook
공책

You move through life as if you were given a blank notepad,
To create worlds with,
All you did was scribble on it,
In a most horrible way,
Now you can’t read it,
Nobody else can.

Response to “Of Scribblings On Empty Pages”

  1. […] came across a small fact thats stayed with me from when I first learnt it. The Korean word for notebook is 공책 (gong-chaek). It means, quite literally, empty […]

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