But then again it's also difficult to not get out of, over, the depression after a few weeks or months of living here. One of my coworkers who arrived here on the same night as me turned in his six weeks' notice earlier this week. I heard the news from my other coworkers, but I definitely understand what he's going through. However, I promised myself that no matter how bad things got for me, except for an emergency of some sort, I would stick through my one year contract. Living and working here is no vacation and it's absolutely nothing like home. South Korea is quite the experience for a waygook, foreigner. Of course, you also meet some great people here.
"have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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