I'll tell them, "You have to watch You're My Glory." I cannot believe it's been a month since I watched this excellent drama. Before watching it, I felt that it wouldn't live up to its hype. I've never been so happy to have been proved wrong.

It didn't only live up to its hype but for me, I'd say it surpassed it. I was kind of in a rough patch when I decided to watch You're My Glory.

When it began, it grabbed me by my arms and said, "Look, I'm going to be your blanket. It will be warm and cozy. You'll be safe but most of all, you'll be fine. I promise you."

I'm glad it didn't fail to keep its promise because boy, was I warm and cozy when watching it all. I felt safe and yes, I turned out fine. Still in a rough patch but You're my Glory loaded me with a few ammunitions to navigate it.

So, why would I show this to someone when they ask me what it's like to be passionate about something?

If there's anything You're my Glory delivered aside from all its sweetness and reassurance, it's that it's aware how tough life could be for some of us who are trying to realize their dreams. Especially when we don't have the connections, money, loved ones to blindly believe in us and, overall good luck to get started and keep going.

But, that's not enough. You may get started in realizing your dream but what happens when it gets all monotonous and stressful? You have to remember what got you into it in the first place! Your passion did. And you have to hold on tight onto it, no matter what happens.

Passion isn't something that's borne out of pure love for things or people. It's the little friend in the corner that will be the last one standing when everyone is tired of waiting to see you win or keep winning. It's going to hold your hands and tell you to keep moving. You deserve to win and even if you don't, you deserve to keep going or even get started.

Weirdly, this doesn't seem to be the only highlight of the drama. Yang Yang and Riba deserve flowers for showing us what it's like to be in love. The bicker, the dirty talk, the trust, the respect, the forgiving and happiness.

I'm searching my memory to find if I've seen anybody portray a charismatic character like Riba did in YAMG but I can't find anything, at the moment.

I could not find it in me to hate her character. She is mischievous, lovely but God, so beautiful. Her heart is beautiful, her mind is beautiful, her soul is beautiful. Yang Yang must have felt the same way whenever they had to get into character and had to match her, which he didn't fail at.

Yang Yang was perfectly imperfect. It's not everyday you see flawed MLs. I don't mean the ones with weird medical disabilities or temporal memory loss but flaws like anxiety and self doubt.

Maybe I haven't watched enough Chinese dramas to make this statement but I have seen a handful so I'll make this statement. Not one character felt off on the screen as opposed to what I've seen in most C-dramas that I've graced my eyes with.

Every actor/actress, in YAMG, gave their all and best into their specific roles. There wasn't any cringe acting and every emotion delivered by this talented bunch seemed to resonate with me, the viewer.

Coming back to passion, I'd say that everyone involved, on screen and off screen seemed to be passionate about this project. Because they were, You're My Glory got to be the masterpiece that it is.

If you're in a sour mood, watch it. It'll make you feel better. I do have to warn you though, it gets too sweet at some point and if you're allergic to sweetness, you have to be strong. If you're in a happy mood, watch it. There's nothing wrong in feeling even happier.

As someone who's in a STEM field like Yang Yang's character in YAMG, the days get too hard sometimes. But after YAMG, I'll be sure to remember that passion is in a little corner, waiting to hold my hands when I can barely stand up. I hope that I'll have someone to be there for me as well, I think everyone deserves that.