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To some, those four letters might sound cold, calculated, or robotic.
But to me, they’ve always meant something quieter.
Someone who quietly imagines,
laughs softly at their own thoughts,
and finds patterns invisible to others.

I’ve always loved building ideas in my head—like assembling a puzzle.
I never cared much for other people’s expectations,
and I enjoyed watching my thoughts stretch out infinitely in every direction.

When I was younger, I loved books that sparked that kind of thinking.
Stories where I, as the main character, would be dropped into ancient Egypt,
solving mysteries one by one like a cerebral treasure hunt.
Those books gave me the gift of mental travel.

It wasn’t fantasy for the sake of escape—
it was stories where logic, structure, and problem-solving intertwined.
That’s what I loved.

As a high school student, I read a lot of historical fiction.
More than the unreality of fantasy,
I found it fascinating to see how people in the past
might have actually thought, judged, and acted.

Maybe that’s why, over the years,
some people—only half-joking—have asked,
“Are you on the spectrum or something?”
Perhaps it was my quietness.
Or maybe it was that something always seemed to be happening inside my head,
even when I said nothing.

I once had a friend in college who, out of nowhere,
told me they were deeply curious about how my mind worked.
I wasn’t sure how to respond.

Even now, when I write,
I often return to those mental journeys.
I want to tell stories the way I’ve felt them,
even if no one ever called it the “right” way.
And if someone reading my work could join me on that journey,
that would mean the world.

I hope this series becomes that kind of space.

If the world I’ve quietly imagined and built
turns out to be meaningful,
maybe it’s because you’re reading this—
and that’s how I’ll know it was worth building at all.

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About MBTI:
MBTI (Myers–Briggs Type Indicator) is a personality classification system based on psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. In South Korea, it gained widespread popularity only recently, especially among younger generations who often use it as a casual way to describe personality types or start conversations.

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