행복한 삶이란 무엇일까…? 잘 사는 것은 무엇일까…? 굉장히 복합적이면서 이해관계가 많이 얽혀있는 질문인 것 같다. 무슨 대답을
해도 정답은 없다. 하지만 내가 살아가는 방식에서 아직은 난 행복한 삶을 살아간다고 느끼기 때문에 그 방법의 하나를 얘기하고
싶다. 우리는 지루한 일상을 얘기하고 반복되는 하루하루를 싫어한다. 하지만 우리는 어릴 때와 다르게 내 주변생활에 익숙해져 있다.
어릴 때의 자기 자신은 세상에 알고 싶은 게 많고 낯선 것도 많기 때문이다. 하지만 나이가 들면서 주변환경에 익숙해지고 어느
정도 뇌에 많은 정보가 들어서게 되면 자기 나름대로 주변환경에 대한 해석으로 머릿속을 정리하고 그 상황에 대해 다시 한 번
생각하지 않는다. 이렇게 점점 우린 자신의 일상에 녹아들어 바뀌려 하지 않는다. 심지어 요즘은 다들 작은 휴대전화기 속에 넓은
세상이 빠져 정작 실제 자신의 세계에 대해서는 무심해지는 경우도 많다. 그래서 매일 반복되는 지루한 일상이 되는 것이다.
휴대전화기 말고 내 옆 사람을 봐야 한다. 지나가다 길가에 놓인 쓰레기 더미를 봐야 한다. 차를 피해 다니는 동물들을 봐야 한다.
봤던 광경이라도 한 번 더 봐야 한다. 왜 저렇게 되는지 왜 저렇게 행동하는지 왜라고 물어보고 새로운 시선으로 봐야 한다.
반대의 관점이 되어 생각해봐야 한다. 자기 자신의 일상이 지루해지고 하루하루가 반복되는 것 같은 생각은 자기 자신이 만들어 내는
것이다. 그것도 다르게 생각할 수 있는 것도 본인이다. 새로운 생각을 하려고 노력하면 일상의 지루함은 없어질 거라고 믿는다.
여기까지 책 "해마"를 읽다가 생각난것를 끼적여본 찬성이었습니다. 해마 재밌네요
What would be a happy life...? What is living well...? I think these are
very complicated, interesting and yet tangled questions. No matter how
you answer it, there's no correct answer. However, I want to talk about
my own way of happy living, because I can still feel that I lead a happy
life because of it. We talk about boring daily life, and we hate the
repeating daily routine. However, contrary to when we were children, we
are used to the lifestyle around us. It is because when we were little,
we wanted to know so much about the world, there were so many things
unknown. However, once we get older and we get used to our surroundings,
to some extent our brain gets filled with a lot of information, and we
arrange the information in our heads about our surroundings in our own
personal interpretation, thus ceasing to concern ourselves with it. This
way little by little we melt into our own daily lives and we do not try
to change it. Even worse, lately everyone's so immersed into a wide
world of a small mobile phone, that they often ignore their own real
worlds. That's why the wearisome daily life repeats itself again and
again. I should take a look at the person next to me, not my mobile
phone. I should take notice of a pile of trash left on a street I walk
on. I must look out for animals that are about to get hurt by cars. Even
though I've seen this scene before, I have to look at it again. I have
to look at it from a new perspective, asking myself why - why is it like
that, why does it work like that. I must think about it from the
opposite point of view. You are the one who thinks that your daily life
is boring and each day merely repeats itself. And you are the one who
can think of it in a different way. If you do your best and try to
change your thinking, I believe that the boredom of the daily life will
disapear. This was Chansung, who tried to scribble down his thoughts
while reading a book "Hippocampus". "Hippocampus" is fun.
ชีวิตที่มีความสุขคืออะไร..? การอยู่ดีมีสุขคืออะไร...? ดูเป็นปัญหาที่ซับซ้อนและเกี่ยวข้องโยงใยถึงกัน ไม่ว่าจะหาคำตอบยังไงก็ไม่มีคำตอบไหนถูกต้อง แต่เพราะผมยังรู้สึกว่าชีวิตของผมมีความสุขในวิถีการดำเนินชีวิตในแบบของผม ผมขอเล่าหนึ่งในวิธีเหล่านั้น เราไม่ชอบชีวิตในแต่ละวันที่สุดแสนจะน่าเบื่อและซ้ำซาก แต่เรากลับเคยชินกับสิ่งรอบตัวไม่เหมือนตอนเป็นเด็ก เพราะตอนเด็กเรามีสิ่งที่อยากเรียนรู้ในโลกนี้มากมายและมีแต่สิ่งที่ไม่คุ้นเคย ทว่าเมื่ออายุเพิ่มมากขึ้น เราคุ้นเคยกับสิ่งรอบตัว มีข้อมูลในสมองมากมาย สมองก็จะประมวลผลสิ่งต่างๆ ด้วยตัวเอง และไม่คิดถึงสถานการณ์นั้นอีก ชีวิตประจำวันของเราจึงเริ่มซ้ำซากไม่แปลกใหม่ และยิ่งปัจจุบันทุกคนตกอยู่ในโลกอันกว้างใหญ่ที่อยู่ในโทรศัพท์มือถือเครื่องเล็กๆ จนไม่สนใจโลกในชีวิตจริง ในแต่ละวันจึงแสนน่าเบื่อและซ้ำซาก อย่ามัวแต่ดูโทรศัพท์ ต้องมองคนข้างตัวบ้าง ดูกองขยะข้างถนนระหว่างผ่านทางบ้าง ดูสัตว์ที่เดินหลบหลีกรถบ้าง ลองมองภาพที่เคยเห็นแล้วใหม่อีกครั้ง ลองถามดูว่าทำไมจึงเป็นแบบนั้น ทำแบบนี้ มองทุกอย่างในมุมมองใหม่ คิดในมุมกลับบ้าง หนึ่งวันที่น่าเบื่อและซ้ำซากเกิดจากตัวของเราเอง และคนที่จะคิดให้ต่างออกไปได้ก็คือตัวเราเอง ผมเชื่อว่าการคิดใหม่จะช่วยให้ชีวิตเราไม่น่าเบื่อ นี่คือบันทึกความคิดที่ได้จากการอ่านหนังสือเรื่อง "ฮิปโปแคมปัส" ของชันซอง ฮิปโปแคมปัสน่าสนใจดีครับ
