A Life Well-Lived
We each have something about ourselves that we simply cannot bear. For some, itโs appearing uncool. For others, itโs looking foolish. Some canโt stand disappointing their friends. Others cringe at being broke. We are diverse in our shames, just as we are diverse in who we are.
For me, itโs the feeling that Iโm not living my life properly. This is admittedly vague. What does it mean to not live properly? Itโs when I fail to live as a full human being. When Iโm not doing what a person ought to do. When Iโm not inhabiting the complete form of what it means to be human.
The scope is broad, I know. Thatโs precisely why I aim for the hexagonโthe wholesome life. Itโs not about impressing anyone. I simply understand that life is organic, and without tight connections between its various elements, nothing runs smoothly on its own. And I want to taste, feel, and chew on all the different flavors that life has to offer.
This desire led me to a question: what do I want to become? The answer that emerged was โ์ํ์ธโโa person who truly lives their daily life. Not a distorted or romanticized version of existence, but life as it actually is, lived well.
So Iโve set my goal: to become the best version of this ordinary, fully-living person that I can be. What does that look like? Taking out the trash on time. Doing the dishes right away. Cleaning. Decorating my space. Staying focused. Earning money. Paying taxes when theyโre due.
I want to master these things. I want to build my life on solid blocks.
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์ ๋ํ๊ฒ ์ค์ค๋ก ๋ชป ๊ฒฌ๋๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ด ์๋ค. ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ์์ ์ ๋ฉ์ด ์์ ๋, ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฉ์ฒญํด๋ณด์ผ ๋, ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ์ค๋ง์์ผฐ์ ๋, ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ๋์ด ์์ ๋โฆ ๋ค์ํ ๋ชจ์ต์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋งํผ ๋ค์ํ ์์ ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ํ๋ค.
๋์๊ฒ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ ๋ชป ์ฐ๋ค๊ณ ๋๋ ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ ๋๊ฒ ๋ชจํธํ ๋ง์ด๋ค. ์ ๋ชป ์ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ๋ญ๋? ์ธ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ง ๋ชปํ ๋, ์ธ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก์ ๋ง๋ ํ ํด์ผํ ๊ฑธ ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์์ ๋. ์จ์ ํ ์ธ๊ฐ์ ํํ๋ก ์ด์ง ๋ชปํ ๋๋ค.
๊ด๋ฒ์ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ๋๋ ์ก๊ฐํ, wholesome ํ ๊ฑธ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์์ํด์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ, ๋๋ ์ถ์ด๋ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์๊ณ , ๊ฐ ์์๊ฐ์ ์น๋ฐํ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์์ด๋ ํ๋๋ ์ ๋๋ก ๊ตด๋ฌ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ํ๋ค๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ ์ถ์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ง์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์น์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค.
๋์ ์ด๋ฐ ์๊ตฌ. ๋๋ ๋ฌด์์ด ๋๊ณ ์ถ์๊ฐ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ํ๋ค ๋์จ๊ฒ โ์ํ์ธโ ์ด๋ผ๋ ํค์๋๋ค. ์๊ณก๋๊ณ ๋ญ๋งํ ๋์ด์๋ ์ถ์ด ์๋ ์๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ก์ ์ถ์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ํ ๋ง์์ด๋ค.
๊ทธ๋์ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ ํ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์๋ ์ต์์ ์ํ์ธ์ด ๋๊ธฐ. ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ญ๊น. ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ. ์ค๊ฑฐ์ง ๊ณง๋ฐ๋ก ํ๊ธฐ. ์ฒญ์ํ๊ธฐ. ๊พธ๋ฏธ๊ธฐ. ๋ชฐ๋ํ๊ธฐ. ๋๋ฒ๊ธฐ. ์ธ๊ธ ์ ๋ ๋ด๊ธฐ.
์ด๋ฐ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ํด๋ด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค. ๋จ๋จํ ๋ธ๋ก ์์ ๋ด ์ถ์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค.