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She stared from her window seat at the pelting rain. Lo-fi played softly in her ears as she watched the droplets of rain slide tantalizingly down the window. There was a certain comfort the rain brought her. There was comfort in the cool breeze that filtered through the slightly-open window slit. There was comfort in the fact that she could hear the rain sounds filtering softly through her ears even though she had music in her ears. It was a heady mix. Rain sounds and Lo-fi.
She had a lot going through her head, however, that even her rain-induced ecstasy couldnโt solve. Sheโd received the e-mail a day before. We regret to inform you that your application wasnโt successful. She remembered the smile that her lit up on her face. Sheโd been sitting at the hospitalโs waiting room then, waiting to see her Mom that was ailing and had been down with a stroke a week before. Even then the Landlord had sent a message that she would be kicked out the very day after the 30th if she failed to pay her rent.
But she smiled. One would think she was loony that goofy grin. But maybe if they looked a little closer, they would see that her smile didnโt quite reach her eyes. It was a weird kind of smile, like a grimace and the bitterness etched in it soured her whole expression. Then the doctor had beckoned on her and told her that her mom would be fine, although she had to be under intensive supervision for the next couple of weeks.
Then sheโd gone home and in a bid to take her mind off things called the one person that she had lived for, for nearly a decade to hear him say, I donโt think I can do this anymore. I love you, but I... But she wasn't listening anymore. Maybe itโs because the phone had slipped slowly from her anguished face and a smile had taken over.
She had these thoughts in her mind and even then, she smiled. But then she looked out the window and saw that the rain had stopped, giving way to those little drizzles that were so slight, they felt like snow. And then with a sudden burst in her heart, she leapt up and grabbed her Nixon camera. Cradling it softly in her arms, she went out with the only treasure she had in her world and paused by the bush that had grown in the backyard. Pausing by a delicate-looking plant with little droplets, like crystals on it, she marvelled and promptly began to snap.
She didnโt notice the tears that started running down her cheeks. Or maybe she did but was oblivious to it. All that mattered was the beauty before her and the peace she hadnโt felt in so long, sweeping her.
Hangeul
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ฐฝ๊ฐ ์ข์์์ ์์์ง๋ ๋น์ค๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ท๊ฐ์ ๋กํ์ด ์์ ์ด ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ํ๋ฌ๋์ค๋ฉฐ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ์๋๋ก ๋จ์ด์ง๋ ๋น๋ฐฉ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ์์์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ง ์ด๋ฆฐ ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ ํ์๋ก ๋ค์ด์ค๋ ์์ํ ๋ฐ๋์ด ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ํธ์ํ๊ฒ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ท๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ด ํ๋ฌ๋์ค๋ ์์ค์๋ ๊ท๊ฐ์ ๋น์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์์์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์์ฐํ ์กฐํฉ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์๋ฆฌ์ ๋กํ์ด.
ํ์ง๋ง ๋น์๋ฆฌ๋ก ์ธํ ํฉํ๊ฒฝ๋ ํด๊ฒฐํ ์ ์๋ ๋ง์ ์ผ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์์ ๋งด๋๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํ๋ฃจ ์ ์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทํ์ ์ง์์ด ๋ถํฉ๊ฒฉ๋์์์ ์๋ ค๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ค." ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ผ๊ตด์ ๋ฒ์ก๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ตํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ ๋์กธ์ค์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฌ์ง ์๋ง์ ๋ณ๋ฌธ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋ณ์ ๋๊ธฐ์ค์ ์์ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ง์ฃผ์ธ์ ์ง์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ง ๋ชปํ๋ฉด 30์ผ ๋ค์๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ซ๊ฒจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋์ต๋๋ค.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์๋ค. ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ์น ์ฌ๋์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์กฐ๊ธ๋ง ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ฏธ์๊ฐ ๋์ ๋ฟ์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐก๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋ฏํ ์ด์ํ ๋ฏธ์์๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์์ ์๊ฒจ์ง ์์ธํจ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ํ์ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ด๋ก๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ์์ฌ๊ฐ ์์งํ๋ฉฐ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ช ์ฃผ ๋์ ์ง์ค์ ์ธ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ผ ํ์ง๋ง ์๋ง๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑฐ์ 10 ๋ ๋์ ์ด์์จ ํ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋จ์ณ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด "๋ ์ด์ ํ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์"๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ํ์ง๋ง...* ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฃ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ง๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ณ ๋์ ์ฐฌ ์ผ๊ตด์์ ์ํ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ๊ณ ๋ฏธ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ผ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ง์์์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์์๊ณ ๊ทธ๋๋ ๋ฏธ์๋ฅผ ์ง์๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ฐฝ๋ฐ์ ๋ด๋ค๋ณด๋ ๋น๊ฐ ๊ทธ์น๊ณ ๋์ฒ๋ผ ๋๊ปด์ง ์ ๋๋ก ๊ฐ๋๊ฒ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด์ฌ๋น๊ฐ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๊ฐ์ด์ด ๋ฐ๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ฐ์ด์ฌ๋ผ ๋์จ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ฅผ ์ง์ด ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ฅผ ํ์ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ์์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ธ์์์ ๋จ ํ๋๋ฟ์ธ ๋ณด๋ฌผ์ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ ๋ท๋ง๋น์์ ์๋ ๋ค๋ถ ์์์ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์ท์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ์ฒ๋ผ ์์ ๋ฌผ๋ฐฉ์ธ์ด ๋งบํ ์๋ ์ฌ์ธํด ๋ณด์ด๋ ์๋ฌผ ์์์ ์ ์ ๋ฉ์ถฐ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ฐํ์ ๊ธ์น ๋ชปํ๊ณ ๊ณง๋ฐ๋ก ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋บจ์ ํ๊ณ ํ๋ฅด๋ ๋๋ฌผ์ ์์์ฐจ๋ฆฌ์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋๋ฉด ๋๋ฌผ์ด ๋ฌ์ง๋ง ์์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ์ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์์ ํผ์ณ์ง ์๋ฆ๋ค์๊ณผ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๋๊ปด๋ณด์ง ๋ชปํ ํํ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ํฉ์ธ๊ณ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ด ์ค์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
Jhymi๐ค
This is my submission to the Dreemport Duo Challenge. And for a quick note, I translated a few of these myself.๐ค