The Episode of Little Mermaid Where Bad Fish Stole a Baby
Information technology's Okay To Not Exist Okay became the talk of the town every weekend for almost two months because of its dark notwithstanding realistic plot that draws connection to our hearts for beingness open to personality and mental health issues.
This drama primarily opens our understanding as a person towards other people, besides every bit to know and truly understand our own selves to achieve genuine happiness. It likewise teaches us a lot of lessons and fifty-fifty the title itself is a lesson reminding us that it is okay to not be okay.
With that, each episode has its ain fairy tale story to tell. These fictitious, however, depicts the reality of life fairy tales are amazingly used in the drama to make united states of america call back the essence of life; that even in the fairy tales, we suffer and took the chances to find the fashion out of that suffering.
At present, let usa look dorsum and experience the warmth of these 16 fairy tale stories that were mentioned in It's Okay To Not Be Okay:
Episode 1: The Boy Who Fed On Nightmares
The male child woke upward from another awful nightmare. Bad memories from that past that he wanted to forget were replayed on his dreams every night and haunted him nonstop.
He was terrified of falling asleep, then ane mean solar day, he went to the witch and begged. "Delight get rid of all my bad memories, so that I won't e'er take a nightmare again. Then, I will exercise everything yous inquire."
Years went by, and the boy became an adult. He no longer has nightmares but for some foreign reasons, he wasn't happy at all.
One nighttime, a claret moon filled the sky and the witch finally showed up over again to take what he had promised in return for granting his wish. And he shouted at her with so much resentment, "All my bad memories are gone but why can't I become happy."
Then the witch took his soul equally they had promised and told him this, "Hurtful, painful memories. Memories of deep regrets. Memories of hurting others and being hurt. Memories of beingness abandoned. Merely those with such memories buried in their hearts tin can become stronger, more than passionate, and emotionally flexible. And just those can reach happiness."
Ko Moon Young
Information technology is the beginning of the series wherein the characters were introduced. Information technology depicts the suffering they're still conveying from the by, most specifically, Sang Tae and Gang Tae who always run to different places.
This story tells us that bad memories and suffering are part of our lives, and that makes usa human. How can nosotros differentiate the sadness and happiness if nosotros tend to feel only one thing? So, we demand to overcome the pain that we have been hiding deep inside our hearts to finally movement on. By that, nosotros can just find the happiness we've been looking for.
Episode 2: The Lady In Cerise Shoes
The little girl wore her crimson shoes everywhere she went, even to a God-fearing church building.
Once you wear those shoes, your feet offset dancing on their ain and y'all tin never stop dancing or accept off those shoes. Merely fifty-fifty so, the little girl never gave up on those ruddy shoes.
In the end, the executioner had to cut off her anxiety. Merely the two feet that got cutting off however continued to trip the light fantastic in those carmine shoes.
Ko Moon Young
This story shows Ko Moon Young's (Seo Ye Ji) obsession with Gang Tae and sharp objects. Any and whoever it is, she'll always become what she wants in whatsoever way she can.
The Lady In Red Shoes reminding us that there are things we've been holding on for a long time and information technology is hard to merely let information technology go. As well, in that location are things that can not be torn apart no affair how hard we try to do and so.
Episode 3: Sleeping Witch
Once upon a time, in a castle in the middle of a deep forest lives a princess who had been comatose for many years.
A needle on a spinning wheel will impale her — that was the expletive the evil witch put to the princess the day she was built-in.
Frightened, the king burned every spinning wheel in his kingdom to avoid the curse, but the princess ended up getting prick by a thorn on the rose given to her by the witch in disguise and roughshod asleep.
Ko Moon Young
In this story, it clearly states that if things are actually meant to happen, even if you lot tried to avoid it, it will eventually happen. In that location'due south no style you could escape from that state of affairs, yous just need to face up it with all your might.
Episode 4: Zombie Kid
A baby boy was born in a modest village. He had stake peel and large eyes. While raising the boy, his mother naturally came to the realization that he had no feelings at all.
All he had was the desire to eat like a zombie. Then, his female parent locked him upwards in the basement so that the villagers wouldn't see him. And every night she stole livestock from her neighbors to feed him. That'south how she raised him in secret.
One dark she'd steal a craven. The next 24-hour interval, she'd steal a squealer. A number of years passed similar that, then one day, an epidemic bankrupt out. It left the remaining animals dead, and it too killed many people.
Those who survived the epidemic left the village. Merely the mother couldn't go out her son all lone. And to gratify her son crying of hunger, she cutting off one leg of hers and give it to him. After that, it was her arm. She gave him all her limbs when she was left with cipher just her body, she embraced her son for the last time to permit him devour what was left of her.
With his both arms, the boy tightly held his mother's torso and spoke for the starting time time in his life, "Mom, you're so warm."
Moon Gang Tae
Parents give everything and willing to do anything for their child even if it means less for them. But is information technology what the kid actually/only wants?
Money, food, toys, and other material things are wonderful gifts that could make one's life better and secure. Just the kids are too longing for attending, love, and care from their parents — these are the priceless and needed things they would love to have.
Episode 5: Rapunzel and the Cursed Castle
A long fourth dimension ago, deep inside the wood, there lived a little girl in a cursed castle. The footling girl's mother ever told her girl that she's too special to live among anybody else outside the castle. The mother told her that she must just live inside the castle.
However, the little girl felt similar she was imprisoned. And then she prayed to the moon every day, "Delight send me a handsome prince who can relieve me from here. Will he come today? Volition he come tomorrow?"
The trivial girl waited every day for her prince to show upward.
Ko Moon Young
The story of Rapunzel reflects Ko Moon Young'southward story who had been waiting for someone to come and make her free. Information technology also teaches us to be patient and keep on believing considering everything has information technology'southward own right footstep. Things will eventually happen in the perfect time and identify.
Episode 6: Bluebeard's Secret
Once upon a time, a count with a blueish beard lived solitary in a huge castle. He was very wealthy just everyone avoided him out of fearfulness because of his blueish beard.
Just ane mean solar day, a poor adult female came to the castle and said that she wanted to be his bride. Brimming with joy, Bluebeard brought out all the jewels and treasures from each room and gave them to his wife every bit a gift.
Nonetheless, in that location was an exception, the room in the basement. He warned her to never go into that room merely his curious wife eventually opened the secret door without telling her husband.
Exercise you know what was in that room? Corpses of women were displayed on the walls. They were the wives of Bluebeard who had ignored his warning and opened that door. That's how they all ended upward.
Moon Gang Tae
This gives hint to what happened to Ko Moon Young'south parents. Moreover, asking why the villagers are afraid of the Bluebeard, it is considering he'south different from the others. Lodge recognizes and favors those who laissez passer their standards but neglects those people who seem different in their optics.
Simply being different is not something to be agape of. We need to accept and embrace i's differences because they are also worthy of love and credence. And even if you're different, there'south someone who will love and accept y'all on who you really are. Someone who'due south not afraid of you lot and tells you lot that it's okay to be different.
Episode seven: The Cheerful Dog
Once upon a time, there lived a canis familiaris that was very expert at hiding his emotions. The canis familiaris was tied beneath a shade tree. He always wagged his tail and acted cutely. And then he got the proper noun, the cheerful canis familiaris considering he is as cheerful equally springtime.
The dog always had lots of fun with the village kids during the twenty-four hours. But every night, he'd moan and whine when no 1 was effectually. That's because he wanted to cut off the leash and freely run around out in the jump field. However, he couldn't. And that's why he cried every night. Every unmarried nighttime.
One day, the voice inside him asked the Cheerful Domestic dog, "Hey, why don't you only cut off the leash and run away?"
And this was the cheerful dog said, "I've been tied up for way as well long so I forgot how to cut myself free."
Moon Sang Tae
Humans are good at hiding their emotions. They clothing a mask showing only what they want others to see. And in the Cheerful Dog's story, information technology reminds us to permit go and move on while nosotros all the same take time, equally long as we are not in the deep trap of our own emotions.
If we keep on holding onto someone and/or something that wouldn't make us whatever better, we will forever be living in fear, pain, and regrets. As much as you can all the same get off the ternion, as much as yous have the chance to observe the way out, do information technology at present.
Practise non live a life where y'all are trapped, it'due south time to take a step and muster your courage. Information technology's now the time to move on and be happy.
Episode 8: Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a story about Stockholm syndrome. The beast lives alone in the castle because of a expletive. He holds a lady named Belle hostage in the castle and grooms this victim of his. That's what the story is most.
The Beast is usually selfish and harsh on Belle. And so doing something dainty once in a blue moon and gazing at her with a faint smiling on his face up was enough to motility the naive lady, Belle.
"The Beast is lonely. I should embrace him with my beloved. Only I tin can change him."
Ko Moon Young
No. The Animate being turns into a prince because of the power of Belle'due south true dear.
Belle'south honey calmed the Fauna's violent nature. That dear embraced his wounded soul. The greatest affair anyone tin can exercise as a human being, it's pure honey.
Areum
The Brute and Belle'south story proves the power of true love. You may build a sturdy wall to protect and distance yourself, at that place's someone out there who will pause that and will comprehend y'all wholeheartedly.
Episode nine: King Donkey Ears
The guy goes to the forest and shouts, the male monarch has ass ears!" — Sang Tae
If you keep a secret to yourself, yous finish upward getting frustrated. You need to tell someone in order to salvage your stress. — Moon Young
King Donkey Ears is a story about a king who has ass ears. He keeps that as a secret to the people aside from his hairdresser. The hairdresser keeps the king's secret for years, only one day, he couldn't keep it anymore and shouted the king'due south underground in the wood.
Simply like what happened at the cease of its episode, Sang Tae shouted the abhorrence he securely keep in his heart towards Gang Tae. Therewith, keeping everything to yourself will only bring naught but disturbance.
We are all familiar with the maxim that no secrets can be kept forever and the truth shall prevail.
Episode 10: The Girl Who Cried Wolf
The shepherd boy lied all the time. The boy repeatedly lied to the villagers that a real wolf showed up.
Do you know why the male child tricked the villagers similar that? Considering he was lonely. He did that because he was lonely all past himself in the mountains.
Ko Moon Young
The Girl Who Cried Wolf refers to Ko Moon Young who lied most her trip with Gang Tae. She explains it to Sang Tae using the above'south story that she is lone and wants to practise something.
If y'all are known to exist a liar, it is so hard to make other people believe whatsoever you accept said. Dishonesty ruins the trust and relationship we once built with the people. So, equally much as possible, be true to yourself and ever tell the truth.
Episode 11: The Ugly Duckling
The other ducks are hateful to the ugly duckling. They nifty him because he looks different from them. — Sang Tae
So he gets really lonely and leaves his family unit. — Gang Tae
If the mother duck gives a lot of love, duckling wouldn't leave. If the adult embraces the kids, the ducks and swan tin can get all along and live together but fine.
Judgements can really bring down someone'due south cocky-esteem. We need to understand and embrace anybody'south differences and make it as their asset non as something to be mocked off.
Episode 12: Romeo and Juliet
Nosotros look like Romeo and Juliet. — Ko Moon Immature
The sick-fated mortal enemies. Who should've never crossed paths. — Gang Tae
No. they're meant to be. It'south fate. — Moon Young
Information technology'south a tragic fate. — Gang Tae
In this episode, information technology slowly unveils the connection of their families. And just like Romeo and Juliet, the two have an ill-fated fate. But this story also shows that we can create honey out of hatred between the families. Love is so powerful after all.
Episode 13: The Father of the Two Sisters
A Tale of Two Sisters. I hated the father in the story. Even though his daughters were driveling past their stepmother and were on the verge of death, he turned a blind heart to all of information technology.
The one who neglects and turns a blind center to the corruption is worse than the abuser. Those two sisters were practically killed by their father.
Ko Moon Young
Among all, this is the story Ko Moon Young hated the almost. This is non merely for the parents but also to all the people who turn a blind centre in every situation. Those individuals who keep their rima oris sealed as if nil had happened.
Our voices may literally save a life if we volition take a step and use it in a correct way.
Episode 14: The Manus, The Monkfish
Once upon a time, a cute infant girl was born into a wealthy family unit. She was as beautiful and flawless every bit magnolias. Her mother loved her then much that she pledge she'd practise annihilation for her baby. She said she would fifty-fifty present to her the sun and the moon.
When the baby started eating solid foods, her female parent was thrilled, "My sweetness child, I will feed you everything you want to eat. Open your mouth wide like this ahhh"
When the baby started walking, her mother ran hurriedly to where she was. "My sweetness kid, I will conduct yous. Come on, hop on my dorsum."
After raising the baby by always providing her with everything she needed, the mother said this, "My love child, I need some balance now. Can you lot get me some food?"
Then the child spoke, "Mom, I have no hands. I never used them and so they've vanished."
"And so my sweetness kid, can you carry me on your dorsum? My legs hurt."
Then the child said this, "Mom, I accept no feet. You always carried me on your back. Then, I've never even stepped on the ground. But instead, I accept a huge rima oris," and she opened her humongous oral fissure.
Then the mother shouted in anger, "You weren't my perfect baby after all. You lot're like a useless monkfish. All y'all can exercise is consume what I feed you. You can't do annihilation on your own. You lot're an utter failure."
Then the mother threw the baby into the far away sea. Even since that twenty-four hour period, it'due south been said that the fisherman can hear a baby's cry on spooky, windy days out on the bounding main.
"Mom. Mom. What did I exercise wrong? Delight come up and go me. Please come dorsum and get me."
Nurse Park
This is a very sad story. Spoiling your kids and not letting them practice something on their own volition eventually get dorsum to the parents. Non all the fourth dimension we have someone to lean on. There are times that nosotros demand to face the world lone.
Episode xv: A Tale of Two Brothers
A long fourth dimension ago, in that location lived two poor brothers who cared for each other very much.
1 day, information technology was the harvest season and then they both harvested rice. The older brother was worried his little blood brother might run out of rice. Then he secretly carried a sack of rice at night and left it in forepart of his little brother's house.
The same twenty-four hour period, the lilliputian brother besides carried a sack of rice and put information technology in front of his older brother's house. Thinking that his older brother might need more than due to his large family.
When they woke upward the side by side mean solar day, they both noticed that they still had the same amount of rice as earlier. The two brothers idea it was strange and so they did the same thing at night and left a sack of rice in front end of each other'south house. And that continued for days.
Moon Gang Tae
Unlike the latter, this story shows appreciation and love towards other people, especially to your siblings. Nothing can beat out one'due south kindness and information technology will get back to you a thousandfold in the hereafter.
This is the lesson of the story co-ordinate to Sang Tae: Siblings who intendance a lot about each other should alive together and so that they won't end upward doing pointless piece of work.
Episode 16: Finding the Real Face up
Once upon a fourth dimension in a castle in the deep forest, there lived three people who had their existent faces stolen by the Shadow Witch.
The Box Man spoke, "If we want to stop fighting and discover happiness, we must retrieve our stolen faces."
So they hopped on their camping car and began their journeying to find their real faces. Then 1 day, they run into a mother fox who was bawling, curled up on the snow.
The Masked Male child asked the mother fox, "Ma'am, why do y'all keep crying?"
"Oh I came out here to find some food merely dropped my baby whom I was carrying on my back somewhere in the snow," the mother fox's tears had run dry. She wailed while chirapsia her chest.
When the masked boy saw that, warm tears started gushing from his optics. Then the snowfall began to melt quickly and the baby fox who was frozen under the snow soon appeared.
The three of them resumed their journey. Soon, they ran into a clown who was dancing naked in a field of thorny flowers. The Emotionless Princess asked, "Why are you dancing with all your might knowing y'all'll be pricked by the thorns?"
"I feel that this is the only style to brand people look at me. Merely it hurts and no i'south looking at me," he answered. The Emotional Princess walked into the field of thorny flowers and started dancing with the clown, "I am an empty can then I won't exist hurt even if I get pricked by the thorns."
When she began hopping and dancing, loud clanking noises echoed from her empty trunk. And upon hearing those sounds, the people began to flock to where they were. The oversupply watched their dance and applauded them.
They began a new journey to detect their stolen faces and the evil Shadow Witch appeared in front end of them once again. She kidnapped the Masked Boy who shed tears on behalf of the mother fox, as well as the Emotional Princess who danced with the clown, "The ii of you will never be able to find your happy faces."
Afterwards putting such a curse on them, she locked them in a deep, night mole tunnel. The Box Human constitute the mole tunnel a few days later but the entrance was so narrow that he couldn't get in. "What do I do? I need to take this box off my head in order to go into the tunnel."
That moment, the Masked Boy's phonation reached him from the inside of the tunnel, "Mister, don't worry almost us. Just ran far away. The Shadow Witch will return soon."
However, the Box Man mustered upward the backbone to have the box off his head. He went within the tunnel and save the Masked Boy and the Emotional Princess.
Upon getting out of the nighttime tunnel, the two of them saw the man'southward face covered with dirt and grime instead of the box and flare-up out laughing. They laughed and giggled.
While laughing uncontrollably, the Masked Boy'south mask suddenly fell off. The can surrounding the Emotional Princess' torso too fell off and made a clanking noise.
The Box Human, at present out of his box, said this when he saw the two of them finding their true faces while laughing, "I'm happy."
What the Shadow Witch had stolen from them was not their true faces but their courage to discover happiness.
Ko Moon Immature, Moon Sang Tae, and Moon Gang Tae
This is a very beautiful story summarizing its own drama, It'due south Okay To Not Exist Okay. It teaches us to always take the courage in finding our own happiness, also every bit in overcoming the struggles of life.
The journey of life is not piece of cake at all. There are lots of bumpy roads and confusing paths that we need to face in order to exist directed in the correct direction.
Aside from that, the whole casts from the primary down to the supporting actors nailed their roles past giving justice to their characters.
And of course, this wouldn't happen without the imagination and creativity of the writer, manager, and the whole production staff!
Amidst the sixteen stories, what are your favorite? Share it with us!
All stories (excerpts) are from the drama. Screen shot photos by Al Lee via Netflix.
Source: https://annyeongoppa.com/2020/08/12/recollecting-the-16-fairy-tale-stories-in-its-okay-to-not-be-okay/