Loneliness is a strange concept. I have everything. I am in need of nothing. I am content for the first time of my life here. I enjoy going off on adventures on my own. I enjoy hiking, and appreciating the views Busan has to offer. I enjoy talking to random Koreans who come up to me on the street. I walk the beach and nod in respect to the people whose country I have borrowed to get out of debt, to resolve some issues and to enjoy traveling in.
I have great friends, I have enjoyed great times taking day trips, dining out, great conversations and great laughs.
I have a great cat I brought with me from Canada.
Truthfully, I would take content over happy anyday. Content is the foundation for being able to be satisfied no matter what the circumstances are.
This loneliness I feel is a challenge. The loneliness is the lack of opposite sex contact. I’ve hidden away too long. Oh I have been going out every weekend, hiking, eating out. But…I have been avoiding foreigner hangouts. I have recently started to enjoy them, but…..
I am not a drinker, I am a conversationalist, a semi comedian (discovered to take myself myself less seriously and now want to make every korean laugh, even the cranky ones.), a bad singer, an even bad dancer..I am a person who loves to laugh at herself and with herself. Now……
I also don’t go to the foreigner bars too much as I didn’t come here to hang out with foreigners and moan about Korea or try to hook up with the same Korean girls who do the rounds in those bars. As a result I’m struggling with loneliness too, as my likeminded foreign and Korean friends are great for hanging out with but useless for making female connections through.
But I’m working through it by doing the things the time I have here allows me to that I have never found time to do back home.
So its swings and roundabouts, though I seem to be stuck on the roundabout and may start feeling nauseous soon!!
formulaic1978@hotmail.com
Hey there. I’m moving to Busan in a few weeks, and although I’m not of the opposite sex, it seems like we are quite similar
Email me sometime! It would be great to have someone to hang out with.