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A soft piece of soul

A Problem I Had While Using My Phone and What I Learned from It

by AHN Too 2025. 3. 31.
๋ฐ˜์‘ํ˜•

 

 

I once had a really frustrating experience while using my phone, and it taught me an important lesson.
It made me realize how much I rely on my phone—and what happens when things go wrong.


๐Ÿ“˜ ํ•ด์„
ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์€ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ง ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•œ ์ผ์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
๊ทธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ์ œ๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑธ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์คฌ์ฃ —์ œ๊ฐ€ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์ด ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š”์ง€์š”.

๐Ÿง  ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•/ํ‘œํ˜„ ์„ค๋ช…

  • I once had ~: ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•  ๋•Œ
  • taught me a lesson: ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹ค
  • what happens when ~: ~ํ•  ๋•Œ ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š”์ง€ (๊ฐ•์กฐ ํ‘œํ˜„)

 

 

 

The main issue was that my phone suddenly stopped working while I was traveling.
I was in an unfamiliar place, and I had no way to check the map, contact anyone, or even look up basic info.
It felt like I lost my connection to the world.


๐Ÿ“˜ ํ•ด์„
๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š”, ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ค‘์— ์ œ ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์ด ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์ž‘๋™์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜€์–ด์š”.
๋‚ฏ์„  ์žฅ์†Œ์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ง€๋„๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„, ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„, ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์—†์—ˆ์ฃ .
์„ธ์ƒ๊ณผ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋Š๊ธด ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.

๐Ÿง  ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•/ํ‘œํ˜„ ์„ค๋ช…

  • stopped working: (๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€) ์ž‘๋™์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๋‹ค
  • unfamiliar place: ๋‚ฏ์„  ์žฅ์†Œ
  • felt like I lost my connection: ๋น„์œ ์  ํ‘œํ˜„ (์ƒ์‹ค๊ฐ ๊ฐ•์กฐ)

 

 

 

 

I remember standing at a train station, trying to ask for directions with no translation app and no signal.
People were kind and tried to help, but I still felt anxious and out of control.
I ended up finding a small information desk, and thankfully, someone there helped me figure things out.
It was stressful at the time, but I’m grateful for the experience now.

 


๐Ÿ“˜ ํ•ด์„
๊ทธ๋•Œ ์ €๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ฐจ์—ญ์— ์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ†ต์—ญ ์•ฑ๋„ ์—†๊ณ  ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋„ ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๊ธธ์„ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋ ค ์• ์ผ๋˜ ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜์š”.
์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋ ค ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ฐ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•˜๊ณ , ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋˜ ๋ถ„์ด ๋„์™€์ฃผ์…จ์–ด์š”.
๊ทธ ๋‹น์‹œ์—” ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์š”.

๐Ÿง  ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•/ํ‘œํ˜„ ์„ค๋ช…

  • ended up ~ing: ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ~ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋‹ค
  • figure things out: ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋‹ค
  • grateful for the experience: ๊ทธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That experience taught me to always prepare a backup—like printing maps or learning basic phrases.
More importantly, it reminded me that I shouldn’t depend too heavily on one device.
Since then, I try to be more mindful and better prepared when I travel.


๐Ÿ“˜ ํ•ด์„
๊ทธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ‘ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฐฑ์—…์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ผ’๋Š” ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์–ด์š”—์ง€๋„ ์ถœ๋ ฅ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ํ‘œํ˜„ ์ •๋„๋Š” ์™ธ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์š”.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑด, ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜์กดํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
๊ทธ ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์ €๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ข€ ๋” ์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”.

๐Ÿง  ๋ฌธ๋ฒ•/ํ‘œํ˜„ ์„ค๋ช…

  • taught me to ~: ~ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ์ฃผ๋‹ค
  • shouldn’t depend too heavily: ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ์˜์กดํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค
  • mindful: ์˜์‹์ ์ธ, ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด (ํ˜„์žฌ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ํƒœ๋„ ๊ฐ•์กฐ)

 

 

 

 

 

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