“고등학교를 졸업하고 대학 다닐 때 학업이 너무 힘들었던 순간이 있었어요. 하고 싶은 일도 많고, 해야 할 일도 많은데 제가 그것을 다 따라잡지 못하고 있다는 느낌을 많이 받았거든요. 너무 지쳐서 제 고등학교 국어 선생님께 카톡으로 그 이야기를 말씀드렸더니, 딱 세글자의 답장이 오더라고요. ‘천천히’라고. 그게 지금까지도 기억에 남아요.”
“After I graduated from high school, I had some tough times with my studies in university. There were so many things that I wanted to do and so many things that I had to do, but I felt like I wasn’t able to keep up with it all. I was so exhausted that I sent a message telling my high school Korean language teacher everything, and I got an exactly six-letter response: ‘slowly.’ I still remember that.”
- 이 캠페인은 서울시·평생교육진흥원의 서울 청년 갭이어 프로젝트, ‘청년인생설계학교’ 와 함께합니다 -
People who like rocks see cool rocks everywhere. People who like birds see interesting birds everywhere. The tree on your yard could be an exceptional specimen. The world around you could be amazing and magical, but you aren’t enough of a nerd to see it.
I gave my mum Alexandra Horowitz’s On Looking: Eleven Walks Through Expert Eyes for her birthday this year, it’s a book that revolves around this idea: the author invites 11 specialists in different things to walk around a boring city block with her one after the other so they can point out to her the things they see, that she doesn’t notice. There’s an expert in typography talking about what the variety of fonts on urban signs can tell you about the city’s history, an entomologist pointing out all the urban insects no one pays attention to, a geologist, a sound engineer…
