Reply 1988

"Fate doesn't come to you at just any time.
At the very least if you want to use the term fate it should be happen, often at the most dramatic moments brought by the coincidence.
That's what makes it fate.
That's why, another term of fate, is timing.
If I had not been caught at any of those damn traffic lights...
If any of those red lights had helped me, even once...
I could be standing in front of her, as if it were fate.
My first love was held back by that thing they call timing. That damn timing.

In the end, fate and timing...
do not just happen, out of coincidence.
They are products of earnest, simple choices, that make up miraculous moments.
Being resolute, making decisions without hesitation...
That is what makes timing.
He wanted her more than I did.
And I should have been more courageous.
It was not the traffic light's fault.
It was not timing.
It was my many hesitations."

- Jung Hwan, Reply 1988.