Wednesday, September 22, 2010

"Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going."

Tennesse Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore


그런 생각을 해본 적 있는가.
삶이 전부 기억이라는 생각,
잡을 수 없을 만큼 재빨리 지나가는 단 한순간을 제외하고는 전부 기억이라는 생각.
정말로 삶은 전부 기억이다...지나가는 매 순간만 빼고.





Monday, September 20, 2010

testing123

ah ah mic (phone app) testing
one two three ♬
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blind photographer

Isn't it an oxymoron--a photographer.blind?

I think not.
They may be better at capturing the bigger world,
the world that surpasses the mere surface level beauty.


e.g., You don't have to see the autumn sky to know that it's autumn :-)

Friday, September 10, 2010

the powerful 'b'

비 떨어지는 소리를 들으며 대전역에 도착하고
뭔가 jazzy한 느낌으로 에스컬레이터를 올라가는데
중3정도로 보이는 남자아이가 위에서 내려온다.
그아이 티셔츠에는 Boston이라고 써져있다.
난 꿈속을 보는듯한 기분으로 그 글자를 쳐다봤다.
그 모든 상황이 슬로우모션으로 지나가다 그 아이가 내 옆을 스칠때 난 본다.

Boston


Massachubetts.

그리고는 Inception에서 디카프리오가 '킥'을 사용해 꿈에서 깬것처럼
나도 금방 깼다.



난 캘리포니아에 그리도 오래 있었으면서 이상하게 보스턴 생각을 참 많이 한다.
아마 너무 짧고 즐거웠던 1년동안 더 애틋한 마음이 쌓여서 그랬나보다.
그렇게 가고싶어했고, 결국은 갔고,
역시나 가슴을 콩닥이게하던 모습이라 그랬나보다.

"언니, 나 1년만 더 있었어도 정말 더 편하게, 더 즐겁게 지낼 수 있을것 같았는데"

그 1년조차 없었더라면 지금 현재의 내 커리어도, 한국에서의 생활도 없었다.
인생은 참 섬세하고 계략적인가보다. 나를 만들어 나가는 과정에서 불필요했던 사건/순간이 있었을까? 보스턴에서의 짧았던 생활도 지금 내 위치에서 어떤 의미를 가지고 있는지를 조금씩 깨달아 가며, 나에게 주어젔던 그 1년이 정말 필요한 시간이었다 말한다.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

who sent me the flowers?



1. 생리 욕구

2. 안전 욕구

3. 소속감과 사랑에 대한 욕구

4. 인정을 받으려는 욕구

5. 자기실현의 욕구



According to David Marslow (Ph.D. in psychology), people feel most rewarded when they reach self-actualization. The diagram above explains his theory on the hierarchy of needs, and as you can see, the bottom of the pyramid describes people's most basic and necessary desire--desire to live--then travel up to more complex levels of cognitive and emotional definition of fulfillment--and in an exchangeable term, pleasure.


We are most satisfied when our work is, when our entirety is, recognized by us, ourselves.
Of course, the power of compliments and incentives are highly robust in themselves and in all their variant forms, but we ultimately decide that "we like what we like."

How many times have we tried to decorate ourselves so we please others' eyes?
How often do we struggle to fit our world into others' framework?

Needless to say, we are mighty in our malleability when it comes to socializing. We accept, adapt, glide, and finally, adjust. What is more scary is the fact that we can easily settle with our adjusted self. (한국에서는 그게 특히 더 심하다) The limitation comes short when our measurement of happiness is heavily dependent on others' rulers: the phrase "nothing lasts forever" applies to people's values and attractions so we will constantly be out of breath, running the never ending chase of popularity.

What is self-actualization?
It is NOT when you obtain authority, respect, and envy, but rather, it is when you are able to ascertain your self-ruling, liberated being through display of love, generosity, and service.

내가 나의 진실된 내면을 들여다 보았을때 나를 이해할 수 있다면 그때 느껴지는 성취감은 그 어떤 칭찬에서 오는 보상보다도 클것이다. 그리고 그 진실됨은 우리가 어떤 대상에게 사랑을 퍼줄때 가장 현저하게 드러난다고 생각한다. 사랑을 베풀며 나의 존재에 의미를 구현해 나갈때, 그렇게 나란 아이를 더 채워나갈때 가장 투명한 행복이 느껴지는것 같다.

그래서 사랑은 "심오한 진리 깨달은 자도 울리는 징"과 같고
"천사의 말을 하는 사람도 사랑없이는 소용이 없다" 하나보다.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Google search: 이문세 가을이 오면 4shared

My birthday has been always associated with an ending of some kind.
End of summer,
End of the break,
Goodbye to friends,
Letting go.

But as always, new things begin at the end of one door.

The new season clicked in.
School started.
and a tornado came (and went).
I wonder if Silvina was able to fly last night.


가을은 열심히 오고있나?

9월이 시작되면서 속에서 무언가가 꿈틀거린다.

눈을 지긋이 감고
썩기 직전의 낙엽 냄새를 맡으며
가로수길을 걸을 때가 돌아온다는 뜻이다.

조금 더 아삭해진 공기를 마시며 관악산으로 등산을 갈때가 되어간다는 뜻이다.
아님 장태산에 갔다 오는길에 찐빵이나 먹을까요.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

mine this manly hand


I don't have much luck fighting for an empty seat when I join the human traffic, either because my eyes are not fast enough at spotting those treasures or because I am not ballsy enough to challenge the other competitor.

But I always end up making a comfortable trip back home, enjoying my kindle-reading and people-watching on a nicely cushioned 4호선 train. How do I get by this? I read each face carefully upon entrance and make a suave move in front of that person who I know is going to get off within the next few stops. This, actually, is the mastery I've cherished during my month of subway commute.

I wanted to say that this funny phenomenon is all due to intuition.
Just because I took more psychology courses than those non-psyc majors, just because I fantasize the world of Hercule Poirot, I wanted to say that I have this particular feelings about people. In truth, we are all detectives and mind-readers.
The postures..the way they are holding their belongings..the way they look at me..
We carry with us ample clues as to advertise our past (+future) actions as well as who we are overall.

It's not just face reading.
People watching is generally very much enjoyable.
...and subway, I'd say, is the best place to stare at people.
I am everyday fascinated by interesting people.
e.g.,
조용히 빵을 먹다 나와 눈이 마주치고 씽-긋 웃는 아줌마,
헨드폰으로 1박2일을 보면서 박장대소하는 남학생,
모처럼 빈자리가 났는데 혼자만 쏙 앉는 남자친구,
나는 의식 밖인, 졸며 가차없이 헤딩하는 아가씨

:-) I thank gene mutations, genetic drift, natural selection, and all other biological phenomena , as well as parenting, socialization, puberty, and all other developmental landmarks for such an interesting world.

My current Kindle read is: Snoop- What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling.

I am not much of a personality psychologist, but my daily subway ride has just gotten more interesting. My eyes will be busy reading but they will also be yearning for another analysis of another 아줌마 in front of me. Oh my.. 삼각지 to 고잔 is just not far enough!