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#Found a sense of leisure and began to notice my surroundings #Rest in Paris, a new environment #Was able to move freely as planned
"It made me realize how important it is to have some breathing room in my life, and it became an opportunity for me—who had been busy running only forward—to look around and have the leisure to go where I wanted."
Bonjour! One-month stay in Paris, France
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# A gap year I joined because I thought I would regret that the only memories I''d have in my twenties would be job-hunting.
Hello. I am a 26-year-old job-seeker who graduated from university and is preparing for employment. To briefly introduce myself: people around me often say I''m very diligent. To others it may look like I keep working without resting and take care of what needs to be done on my own, but I think the truth is I don''t know how to relax comfortably or take a break.
Like many people, I enjoy traveling, watching movies, and reading books, but as people often say...I was so focused on building credentials for employment that I kept postponing the things I enjoy, and looking back, it seems I had no time for myself beyond building my resume.
Even when I opened a book or planned a trip, I would often put it away and start studying or working again because of impatience and anxiety that others would still be preparing for good jobs and that I was falling behind. I often felt that leisure and rest were not something to be taken for granted but rather a luxury or indulgence.
Actually, after graduation I wanted to give myself a year of rest. While at university, my semesters were a continuous series of so many assignments that I couldn''t even sleep properly, and even during the vacations I had, I never really enjoyed a proper break because of extracurricular activities and workshops.
Moreover, due to the many expenses of living on my own...I never took a break from part-time work throughout my university years, and especially while preparing my final graduation project, I was so physically and mentally exhausted that I ended up going to the emergency room about once a week.It was.
As I approached graduation and looked back on my college life and early twenties, all I could recall was my frantic pursuit of credentials for employment, and...I thought I would regret later that the only memories I''d have from my twenties would be job hunting.
So I planned to take about a year after graduation without thinking about employment and to give myself time to rest, but the habits I had maintained didn''t suddenly change, and I ended up spending the year as an extension of the university life I regretted—filled with work, TOEIC prep, competitions, and professional exams.
Feeling like I couldn''t go on like that, I was looking into traveling alone and learned about gap years, and discovered a project to live in Paris for a month.
I thought that in a new environment like Paris I could relax and enjoy myself without feeling anxious or rushed. I had visited Paris once before and felt it was too short even though it was just a week, so I chose this project without hesitation.I ended up choosing it.
# Boarding the plane and leaving without researching anything
I generally like traveling and go often, so I wasn''t worried about being in a new overseas environment. I had stayed in Rome once while doing an architecture workshop, and I didn''t have any difficult memories from that stay, so I wasn''t particularly concerned about staying for an extended period.
When staying abroad for a long time, people are usually most worried about food and the environment...With this project, because I stayed in a guesthouse, I could have Korean food every day and met Koreans often, so I had no time to feel homesick or lonely.
If anything, I was worried because there had been an attack in Berlin the day before I left, and I was very concerned about terrorism, but with police patrolling the streets and thorough bag checks whenever you entered places, those worries seemed to disappear as I went around Paris.
Normally when I travel I learn something about the country and do some basic research, but this time going to Paris I boarded the plane without looking anything up. It was my second time in Paris, so I also didn''t research because of that, and...When I make plans, I get trapped in the thought that I have to do something, and I felt I wouldn''t be able to truly enjoy a trip where I could relax.
Instead, I brought a few books I wanted to read and movies I wanted to see, and looked up the exhibitions in Paris that I wanted to visit. Personally I was most looking forward to the Palais de Tokyo, but it was closed until February for preparation of a new exhibition, which was very disappointing.
"It made me realize how important it is to have some breathing room in my life, and it became an opportunity for me—who had been busy running only forward—to look around and have the leisure to go where I wanted."
Bonjour! One-month stay in Paris, France
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# A gap year I joined because I thought I would regret that the only memories I''d have in my twenties would be job-hunting.
Hello. I am a 26-year-old job-seeker who graduated from university and is preparing for employment. To briefly introduce myself: people around me often say I''m very diligent. To others it may look like I keep working without resting and take care of what needs to be done on my own, but I think the truth is I don''t know how to relax comfortably or take a break.
Like many people, I enjoy traveling, watching movies, and reading books, but as people often say...I was so focused on building credentials for employment that I kept postponing the things I enjoy, and looking back, it seems I had no time for myself beyond building my resume.
Even when I opened a book or planned a trip, I would often put it away and start studying or working again because of impatience and anxiety that others would still be preparing for good jobs and that I was falling behind. I often felt that leisure and rest were not something to be taken for granted but rather a luxury or indulgence.
Actually, after graduation I wanted to give myself a year of rest. While at university, my semesters were a continuous series of so many assignments that I couldn''t even sleep properly, and even during the vacations I had, I never really enjoyed a proper break because of extracurricular activities and workshops.
Moreover, due to the many expenses of living on my own...I never took a break from part-time work throughout my university years, and especially while preparing my final graduation project, I was so physically and mentally exhausted that I ended up going to the emergency room about once a week.It was.
As I approached graduation and looked back on my college life and early twenties, all I could recall was my frantic pursuit of credentials for employment, and...I thought I would regret later that the only memories I''d have from my twenties would be job hunting.
So I planned to take about a year after graduation without thinking about employment and to give myself time to rest, but the habits I had maintained didn''t suddenly change, and I ended up spending the year as an extension of the university life I regretted—filled with work, TOEIC prep, competitions, and professional exams.
Feeling like I couldn''t go on like that, I was looking into traveling alone and learned about gap years, and discovered a project to live in Paris for a month.
I thought that in a new environment like Paris I could relax and enjoy myself without feeling anxious or rushed. I had visited Paris once before and felt it was too short even though it was just a week, so I chose this project without hesitation.I ended up choosing it.
# Boarding the plane and leaving without researching anything
I generally like traveling and go often, so I wasn''t worried about being in a new overseas environment. I had stayed in Rome once while doing an architecture workshop, and I didn''t have any difficult memories from that stay, so I wasn''t particularly concerned about staying for an extended period.
When staying abroad for a long time, people are usually most worried about food and the environment...With this project, because I stayed in a guesthouse, I could have Korean food every day and met Koreans often, so I had no time to feel homesick or lonely.
If anything, I was worried because there had been an attack in Berlin the day before I left, and I was very concerned about terrorism, but with police patrolling the streets and thorough bag checks whenever you entered places, those worries seemed to disappear as I went around Paris.
Normally when I travel I learn something about the country and do some basic research, but this time going to Paris I boarded the plane without looking anything up. It was my second time in Paris, so I also didn''t research because of that, and...When I make plans, I get trapped in the thought that I have to do something, and I felt I wouldn''t be able to truly enjoy a trip where I could relax.
Instead, I brought a few books I wanted to read and movies I wanted to see, and looked up the exhibitions in Paris that I wanted to visit. Personally I was most looking forward to the Palais de Tokyo, but it was closed until February for preparation of a new exhibition, which was very disappointing.
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