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Time Alone Creates Lifelong Memories
I went to Korea in the summer of 2010 and had an experience which seemed like any other but ended up staying within me for years.
I had a workcamp in Gwangju starting soon and was still in Seoul. As an experience, I decided to do a templestay in a city midway: Jeonju. Unfortunately, when I got there, I could remember the name and place of the temple.
I looked for it again for hours but had to give up at one point. So I found a guesthouse in Gwangju and decided to go there one day earlier.
However, when I got there, I called it and got told to take a taxi which would cost me about 18,000 Wons. Having taken the taxi in Seoul quite a few times, this appeared very expensive shocked me and made me understand the guesthouse was extremely far from everything else. I canceled it.
But then, I had no back-up plan ready. I was in a city I didn’t know, with no place to sleep and a gathering point where I was one day later.
I sat down on a bench and started thinking.
What am I going to do?
As the first time in my entire life to be lost, to not know where to go, how to act, nobody to contact to help me, I started being worried.
This worry turned into fear and got me stuck on that bench…
