Young people, many who work for multinational corporations, and frequently journalists following stories often travel beyond their countries borders pursuing the trail of 'earning a living'. Many older people travel to get to know the more about the world. At the age of 60, I decided to leave behind the life I led in the country of my birth to seek 'the path of enlightenment', something that was much more common among people my age when we were in our late teens and early twenties. From my current perspective I knew that had I done this years ago when I was younger many of my current challenges would not have posed a challenge me, but more importantly, I would have gotten far less from the adventure than I am now getting or will gain in the future.
Here I am at a special Korean restaurant.
My path on this adventure began by taking me from Knoxville, Tennessee on February 10 (this year), to Cheonan, South Korea - The Land of the Morning Calm - at the invitation of a friend, Wan-hui Han, whom I had met more than a decade earlier when he assisted me in the running of a martial arts school in the US (about which I will discuss in greater detail at a later time). Though it has only been three and one half months since the inception of the journey I have already learned much, about myself (both good and bad), about Korea and about its people that I had not known or realized before (despite my 35 year long associations with Korean peoples both in the US as well as in Korea).
Kim, Tae-wan and Han, Wan-hui with me during a tour of the Korean Folk Village in Assan, South Korea.
In future pages of this blog I will talk more about what from my background led me to seek this unusual journey as well as some insight as to the day to day life I am experiencing.
Before ending this post I would first like to express my sincere thanks to my friend, Wan-hui. It is only due to his assistance that not only am I able to be here to speak from Korea, but his efforts to drag me out from the world of Luddites back to the world of technology is the motivating force behind this blog. Basically, he put a computer in front of me and told me I should blog because others will have interest in my story. So, I agreed to try. Further, I would like to offer special thanks to his family for taking me in and putting up with me during my time here. If any would like to offer any specific comments or have any questions about information offered in this blog my e-mail address is hesinspirer@gmail.com.
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