"I am a failure. I hardly ever notice whether the sun is shining or not, because I have no time.
"My parents couldn't offer me any support, and I wasn't well educated. All alone, I searched for a future in the city.
"I applied for many jobs, but none of them hired me. Maybe nobody liked someone who wasn't good at talking, didn't enjoy socializing, and hadn't shown enough ability.
"For three whole days, I ate only two loaves of bread. Hunger kept me awake at night. Luckily, I had paid a month's rent in advance, so I could keep living in that dark basement instead of going outside to endure the unusually bitter winter wind.
"Finally, I found a job—working the night shift at a hospital, watching over the morgue.
"The hospital was even colder at night than I had imagined. The wall lamps in the corridors weren't lit, and everything was dim. I could only rely on the faint light spilling out of the rooms to see where I was stepping.
"It smelled terrible there. From time to time, dead bodies would be delivered stuffed into body bags, and we would work together to carry them into the morgue.
"It wasn't a good job, but at least I could afford bread. I could also use the free time at night to study. After all, nobody wanted to come to the morgue unless a body needed to be brought in or taken away for cremation. Of course, I still didn't have enough money to buy books, nor could I see any hope of saving up.
"I had to thank my former coworker. If he hadn't suddenly quit, I probably wouldn't have gotten even a job like this.
"I dreamed of taking turns working the daytime shift. Sleeping whenever the