I resigned my position as CEO myself
From today, I decided to live a life of my own decision. Above all, I had to solve various pains that were constantly interfering with my life for a long time, and I had always thought that if I had reached in a high position that a salaried worker could achieve, the way down should be choose by myself.
회사에서 대표가 되는 건 그걸 가져보지 못한 사람에게는 분명히 꿈꿀만한 것이지만 나는 어디의 누군가가 아닌 그냥 나인 나로 존재하고 싶었다. 원하지도 않았고 계획하지도 않은 채 어느 날 갑자기 지구라는 별에 떨어져 원하지 않은 온갖 풍파를 만나고, 원하던 원하지 않던 조만간 다시 지구에서 떨어져 나가겠지만, 그래서 지금 이 순간만큼은 어느 무엇에도 방해 없이 온전히 나인 나로 존재하고 싶었다.
Being a representative in a company is definitely dreamy for someone who hasn't had it, but I just wanted to exist as me, not someone else. Unwanted or unplanned, one day suddenly fell on a star called Earth and met all kinds of unwanted waves. Whether I wants to or not, I will soon be separated from the Earth again, so I wanted to exist as me completely without any interference at this moment.
Above all, I wanted to live with the freedom to do what I really wanted and with feel the joy through it.
I thought that once life was pushed down, the life after it would continue to be pushed down, and that such a life would be difficult to be truly happy or resolute in the face of death.
So far, I have not lived a life of self-determination because of relationships, to make money, to be promoted to a higher position, and to live a meaningful life. After all, I had no freedom. If I can't decide on my own, isn't there no freedom.
People ask me what my retirement plan is. There is no plan. Although there are measures to protect the family, I have yet to find an answer on what meaning to live the rest of my lives. It's because I haven't figured out all about myself yet, so it's also why I'm not free.
I can't make a plan because I haven't figured out all about myself. Step by step, and it will become clearer little by little. So I just go. We were born without a plan, but we live like this, and isn't it our lives that planning doesn't even work out as planned.
24살 때 부모님 모두 돌아가시고 직장에선 세 번의 큰 시련을 겪었다. 구분 상가투자로 쥐꼬리만 한 재산의 반을 날리고, 12년 간의 투병 끝에 아내를 먼저 보내야 했다. 우울증과 위 무력증으로 살아내기 위해 전쟁처럼 견뎌야 했고, 2013년 1월 이후 원인을 알 수 없는 목소리 상실로 인해 말을 제대로 할 수가 없었다.
At the age of 24, both parents died and had three times of major trials at work. I had to lose half of my property as small as a mouse through investment in a devided shopping mall and send my wife first after 12 years of fighting against the disease. I had to endure like a war to survive from depression and gastric asthenia , and since January 2013, I couldn't speak properly due to an unknown voice loss.
As if the vocal cords are nodular and the sound leaks, the voice is caught in my throat and screamed so much. No matter how much I try to talk, the voice comes out too difficult like a person whose voice is completely hoarse.
I went to a university hospital, but it didn't help much, and I felt pain that I couldn't say. The pain in the body caused by fibromyalgia which cannot be treated at the root, made life more difficult after 50.
Pain is better to accept than to endure. It's so hard to endure, but accepting that the pain is who I am makes it much easier to endure.
A few years after my wife went to heaven, I became the CEO of one of several affiliates. None of these events that have happened to me so far have I intended or planned. Therefore, planning is not always necessary in life.
There is a need for more rational and flexible best response to the current situation. Whether it's about individuals, money, or work, we can grow and achieve as much as we can control. However, if we crave and try hard enough to die, luck can come from unexpected places. Life is all ironic.
When we are in the mountains, we can't see the top of the mountain well. So when you're in the middle of a difficult or complicated situation, you can't see the answer well. To find the answer, you have to go out of the situation and look at all the variables associated with the situation together. You have to be able to accept the idea that anything can happen to you, and the duality that nothing will happen to me.
This is not to say that you can live without thinking. At some times in life, you may need a plan of reality, but what is important is the direction of the future, flexibility of ideas, and philosophy of life. If there is no philosophy in life, you will face limitations at any time, and if there is a philosophy, internal motivation can occur, and other ways can be found in any situation.
It was more difficult to retire than to enter the company. Life-determining choices and decisions are always hard. It was pleasing to me that there was still use in the company, but I wanted to find true freedom. I heard from another me in my mind that it was an escaping from reality, self-justification, and a cowardly decision, but I decided to ignore it.
I wanted to be happy by my existence itself, and I wanted to make myself happy even if I didn't care about human relationships or friends and did nothing. I wanted to give up my reason and follow the path of emotion to test myself. Even if this resulted in a wrong decision, I wanted to follow the sound of freedom deep inside.
I resigned CEO position for freedom from pain, finding out who I am, and freedom to live the life I want. I'll just take one step for now. This is because I believe that the next step will be led by front step. I just go like a rhino's horn.