• ์˜ค๋Š˜์ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด

    2020. 11. 22.

    by. suziosaurus

    ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์žก์Šค์˜ ์Šคํƒ ํฌ๋“œ ์กธ์—…์‹ ์ถ•์‚ฌ ์˜์ƒ์„ ์ ‘ํ•œ ์ง€ ๋ช‡ ๋…„์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜๋ €์ง€๋งŒ ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋‚จ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋ช‡ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋จผ์ €, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ ˆ์€ 'Connecting the dots'. ์ „ํ˜€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜์ค‘์—๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์— ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด๋ก ์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜ ๋˜ํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋‹น์žฅ ๋‹ฅ์นœ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ์‚ถ์— ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๋ฉด, ์–ธ์  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋น›์„ ๋ฐœํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ . 

    ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๊ธฐ์— ๋ฉ‹์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋Š๊ปด์กŒ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ฃฝ์Œ์„ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์„ธ์˜€๋‹ค.

    When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

    ๋งค์ผ์„ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์˜ค๋Š˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์‚ด ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€. ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ „ ๋‚ด ๋Œ€๋‹ต์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ 'no'์˜€๋˜ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๋งค์ผ๋งค์ผ์ด ์ผ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์•„์ฃผ ๋ฐ”๋นด๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ์„ ๋‹ค ์™„๋ฒฝํžˆ ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ์ผ์— ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ฃฝ์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณต๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ์ˆœ์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ์ž ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ด๋‹ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ๋‹จ์ถ•๋˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด๋„ ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์ด ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋‹ค. ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฐ”์˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ”์จ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๋‚ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋งŒ์กฑ๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค.

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    ๋ช‡ ๋…„์ด ํ๋ฅด๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ ธ๋ดค๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜์ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์‚ด ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€. ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ๋‚ด ๋‹ต์€ 'yes' ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์•„์นจ์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์„œ ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ๊ณ , ์ฒญ์†Œ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณต๋ถ€๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋งค๋ผ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฑธ ๋จน๊ณ , ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ์šด๋™๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์”ป๊ณ , ์ž๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ธ€์„ ์“ธ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๊ณต๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ธด ์–ด๋ ต์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€๊ธˆ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ ˆ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ์‹ซ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์œผ๋‹ˆ ์ด ์ •๋„๋ฉด ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ. ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๊ฝค ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ณผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ๋ช‡๋ช‡์—๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•  ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์œ„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์•ˆ๋ถ€ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ. ์ด๊ฑด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ์‚ด๊ฐ‘์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋‚ด ์„ฑ๊ฒฉ ํƒ“์— ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ •๋„๋ฉด ์˜ค๋Š˜์ด ๋‚ด ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด๋„ ํฐ ํ›„ํšŒ๋Š” ์—†์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž˜ ์‚ด์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์นญ์ฐฌํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค.

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    ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋•Œ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๋„์ „์„ ํ•ด๋ด์„œ ๋” ํ›„ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค. ํฌ๊ณ  ์ž‘์€ ๋„์ „์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต๋„ ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹คํŒจ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๋‚ด ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์น˜์™€ ํ•œ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋Š ์ •๋„์ธ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋Š ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋‹จ ํ•ด๋ณด๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์›ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ด์ „์—๋Š” ์‹คํŒจํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹ซ์—ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋„ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹คํŒจ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ์€ ์‹คํŒจ์— ๋ฌด๋ŽŒ์ง€๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์‹คํŒจ๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ๋” ํฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค.

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    ์ด์ „์—๋Š” ์ธ์ƒ์— ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ํฐ ๊ฑธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์ƒ๋งŒ์„ ์ซ“์œผ๋ ค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋ดค์ž ๊ณ ์ž‘ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ๋” ์‚ด์•˜์ง€๋งŒ์€, ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์€ ์ ์ด ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ธ์ƒ์€ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ์—ฌ์„œ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ธ์ƒ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ธฐ์— ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์‚ด์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์—ด์ •์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๋ถˆํƒœ์›Œ ์Ÿ์•„๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ํž˜๋“ค ๋•Œ๋ฉด ์‰ฌ์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ . ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์— ๊ท€ ๊ธฐ์šธ์—ฌ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‚ด์•„์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ์€ ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. ์ด๊ฑธ 20๋Œ€์— ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•„์„œ ๋‹คํ–‰์ด๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์— ๊ธฐ๋กœ์— ๋†“์˜€์„ ๋•Œ ๊ฐ™์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋˜์ ธ๋ณด์ž. ์˜ค๋Š˜์ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์˜ค๋Š˜์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์‚ด ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ์„ ํƒ์ด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€.

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