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This I believe- I believe I can fly

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(Before you start, why don’t you play the BGM below the article? That song is awesome.) “I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky.” This is the famous line from R. Kelly’s mega hit song ‘I Believe I Can Fly’, and it might sound hilarious, but it's the belief that I've had for all my life. Superficially, I understand that believing that one can fly or one can reach the sky might seem a really stupid thing to do. But unlike how it looks stupid, it takes a lot to believe that you can fly. If one really wants to believe that one can actually fly over the sky, he or she must be free from the eyes of others and one needs the courage to push ahead with what one really wants to do and quit doing what one doesn't want to do. The incident just struck in 2007 summer, on the first day of Chuseok vacation (or Korean Thanksgiving day). As usual, I and my family drove for 10 hours and watched TV at my grandma's house in the countryside for the annual Chuseok cer