Before working with the metafiction, I translated this into English from Korean. This was once hot issue in the internet in the site Naver. This was actually 40 symptoms, but I deleted some that seemed to be duplicated of or overlapped with the before one.
I think this is quite interesting :
Symptoms of Unrequited Love
0.You are glad to hear the ringtone of the one you have a crush on.
1. The words he inadvertently speaks out hurts your heart.
2.So you might hate him instantly.
3.But again, you can find yourself crushing on him when talking with him.
2.So you might hate him instantly.
3.But again, you can find yourself crushing on him when talking with him.
4.You sometimes play hard to get without any reason.
5.(On the messenger) Just to have a short 10 minute greeting or conversation you wait for 3 hours.
6. At one moment, you prepare to leave him. But actually, he never ever have left you or been with you.
7. Thinking about him, you listen to pretty love songs. Then gradually turns to sad love songs.
8.You feel resented to hear the news that he has a new lover. At the same time, you regret not having confessed about your emotion.
9. Your emotion shimmers by every word he says.
10. Every night, you cry thinking about him.
11.If his Ms. right is far from you, you can’t help sighing deeply.
12. On the messenger, if he talks to you first, you go crazy.
13. It’s hard to delete his texts in the cellphone.
14. You’re all alone. Loving and waiting all alone.
15. All the songs about crush, are all your songs.
16.You promise yourself not to like him anymore as you want to see him right at the moment.
17. You wish if he could figure out your feeling before you tell him and confess to you first.
18. You pretend not to be sad at all when he talks about his girlfriend.
19. You delude yourself into believing he loves you too.
17. You wish if he could figure out your feeling before you tell him and confess to you first.
18. You pretend not to be sad at all when he talks about his girlfriend.
19. You delude yourself into believing he loves you too.
20. You think you erased him, but your heart beats again as you see him or receive messages from him.
21. You give greater meaning to his meticulous and unwittingly behaving actions.
22. You try to be pokerfaced in front of him. But as you turn your back, you smile a broad smile.
23. If you meet him accidently on a street, you keep imaging the scene the whole day.
24. You sympathize with these symptoms.
25. You cannot face him properly.
26. You can’t hate him even he makes you depressed.
27. You cry listening to the songs he loved.
28. Wherever you go, your head is filled with him.
29. At the times you feel down, you remind of the sweet memories with him to cheer up.
30. If he logs in the messenger, your heart starts to stump.
31. Feel painful and difficult.
32. You keep wishing stupid things.
33. You wish to see him in your dreams.
34. You can smile, laugh or cry if you think of him.
35. You feel a sense of inferiority about him, so seldom, you feel angry.
36. If you see a piece of nice writing, you think of him first.
Yay, maudlin sentimental stuff, yay.
답글삭제In all seriousness though, some of these symptoms look like post-breakup symptoms than unrequited love symptoms (like 'You listen to his fave songs and cry' one or 'You think you erased him, but you can't delete his texts' one). But the thing I really wanted to comment on was how well this was translated. You found the exact English expressions for the Korean words that make the meaning so clear and natural. (ex. 'playing hard to get' or 'Mr. Right'.) You're really good at this.
Wow, writing such a long comment on a friend's blog is really weird. Then again, I'm a loving stalker who loves to ramble. No surprise there.
Oh, sentimental Jiyoung! Why am I not surprised that you decided to write a post on love? ^^ This was very fun to read. Whether I "sympathized with these symptoms" (#24), you'll have to ask in private~ *Hush!*
답글삭제Some of these are pretty accurate, some of them seem stalkerish. I'm sure my wife can attest to most of these when we were dating. I'm not saying she stalked me though.; )
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