“After 8 months of marriage, I traveled alone for a year”… Why she’s unique [여행+책]

Although it is a trip to have fun, this journey is not always enjoyable. Among them, for those who choose to quit their stable daily lives and leave, traveling will be a challenge filled with unpredictable events. From the moment you set foot in an unfamiliar place, there are countless difficulties.

But there is also a lot to be gained. In particular, listening to life stories while interacting with many people during the journey is one of the values ​​that I would not have known in my entire life if I had not gone on a journey.

Therefore, we introduce three books that contain the stories of people who were able to grow further on their journey alone. If you are planning a new beginning before the end of the year, why not read a book and gain the courage to do it?

21-year-old college student who ran away from school

Hong Si-eun / Blue Scent Publishing

There was a 21-year-old college student who lived in the back of the classroom without any dreams or hobbies. Since I didn’t have anything to write down about my future aspirations, I went to the university my teacher chose for me. Of course, I had no passion or will to study.

One day, when everyday life was boring and I felt like I was useless, I gave up a blank exam and ran away from school. And he wandered around the world for two years. The book ‘21-Year-Old College Student Who Ran Away from School’ is a book that contains what I saw and felt while traveling through the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia.

The author learned about the colorful world by immersing himself in the lives of everyone he met along the way, such as trying to become a diving expert in Dahab, Egypt, learning how to use a camera in India, and gifting family photos to locals. In particular, Lydia, an orphanage teacher I met in Uganda, told the author that she had a dream of making someone’s life better.

This dream was so contagious that it led the author to an altruistic life. This is because the author, who traveled all over the world, met and talked to various people, eventually returned to find his own dream.

“Life is a process of tracing one’s own shape. There is a dream in that process. There is a trip. And there is also wandering. When I looked back, I saw that the road continued with no visible starting point. There was a sea on the road. There was a desert. And there was an old diary. “I have finally begun to look at where I stand, on my path.”

_Into the book

Chapter 1 of the book explains the author’s dreamless wandering college life, and chapters 2 and 3 talk about the dreams of people he met while traveling around the world. Chapter 4 contains the process of finally finding something you like and discovering your own color and dream, and the final chapter 5 provides consolation for students enduring a time of wandering.

This will be a book that gives courage to youth who are wandering around because they don’t know what to do, and that ‘the 21-year-old college student who ran away from school’ can go anywhere.

Twenty-one left for Europe

Seungmin Go / Good Land

Life doesn’t just go smoothly. Especially when we suddenly have to take a different path instead of the direction we had anticipated and prepared for, we are always helplessly swept away by the waves of life. Writer Ko Seung-min was like that too.

He put his dreams on hold due to an unexpected accident and faced a two-year gap. At first, it seemed like everything was over. But it didn’t stop. The author took the opportunity to study abroad and embarked on his new path.

‘Twenty-one Travels to Europe’ is author Ko Seung-min’s travel story in Europe. This is not a common travel story about people leaving because they were bored with everyday life. In Europe, the author traveled to France, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Austria for his studies. At this time, the author learned about life beyond simple learning.

Of course, there was a lot of pain and loneliness while learning. Because he did not understand the language, he was unable to tell people where he was, so he took a nap in a narrow chair and moved around.

Nevertheless, there were many joys that made it impossible to continue the trip. The author said he still remembers the love and hospitality he received in a rural village in France. The book conveys the process of filling the difficulties presented by an unfamiliar foreign country with the love that is possible because it is an unfamiliar foreign country. It is as if the author slowly moved forward by overcoming the difficulties he experienced while studying and traveling abroad.

The author, who overcame all adversity and strengthened himself, was eventually able to reach a positive mindset of ‘it is better.’ And now, no matter what hardships there may be, he says he will jump into them with the confidence that this too is an experience. Because we know that that in itself is the value of life.

“In life, it sometimes feels like there is a wind that suddenly blows. At one point, I even tried to force myself to go against it. However, as I wrote down the things I discovered during my trip more honestly than ever before, word by word, I came to realize. “If you just live according to the wind that blows and the flow, there will be its own path, joy, and enlightenment.”

_Page 299

What’s wrong with leaving alone?

Sojeong Lee / Dongyang Books

Here is the story of a person who had been married for 8 months and traveled the world alone for a year. The reason is simple. I’m trying to find a day when I’m truly full. The author, who joined a large company at the young age of 19, fulfilled his desires by spending money, such as driving a foreign car and going to luxury restaurants. However, strangely enough, his things were not enough to buy or buy, and the more he did, the more empty his heart became.

After much thought, the writer came to the conclusion that it was a trip. In the end, he got a stable job at a time when his peers were choosing employment. And the author, who had been married for eight months at the time, went on a year-long trip. And that too alone.

‘What’s Wrong with Traveling Alone’ is a book that summarizes what the author experienced and felt while traveling alone. If you think that you would have made plans for each period during your year-long trip, you would be mistaken. The author shows the essence of unplanned travel.

In particular, I visited travel destinations that would be difficult for a woman alone, from Africa to South America and India. The author, who met a variety of people in an unfamiliar place, was able to experience a new attitude toward life and grow further.

“The things I feel while traveling might have been considered unusual if someone were next to me. Being alone is both an advantage and a disadvantage to not being controlled by others as to how far you will take your current emotions and inspiration. There is a difference between loneliness and newness. The more lonely you are, the more you notice new things around you and absorb them more slowly and deeply. “My world filled with trivial things becomes clearer.”

_p.052 From ‘Treating the Yunanan’

I gained a lot from leaving alone. The author said he didn’t need to impress anyone or make himself up. For the author, who has now completed a long journey, travel is not an escape. He says that travel is something that can give you the courage you need in everyday life.

And he filled the book with the courage he gained during his travels. He thought, why not read the book and gain the courage to move forward with your daily life along with the charm of travel?