Couple's Journey to Ladakh: Finding Peace, Purpose, and Community in a Remote Village

라다크의 독특한 환경은 연사에게 평화로움과 감사함을 심어주었습니다.

### 라다크 오지에서 찾은 삶의 의미: 미국 부부의 선택
* 🏞️ 미국에서 **고소득** 생활을 하던 부부가 라다크 오지로 이주하여 **자급자족**하며 살아가는 이야기.
* 👩‍❤️‍👨 아내의 제안으로 시작된 라다크 여행이 삶의 터전으로 이어짐. 남편은 아내를 따라 라다크로 향했고, 그곳에서 새로운 삶을 선택하게 됨.
* 🏡 라다크 마을에서의 삶은 **물과 나무를 구하고, 농사를 짓고, 마을 사람들과 함께 생활하는 것**으로 이루어짐.  
* 🍫 **풍요로운 미국 생활과 달리 라다크의 삶은 소박하지만, 감사함과 만족감으로 가득 차 있음.**  단순한 핫초콜릿 한 잔에도 감사하는 모습을 보여줌.
* 🤝 마을 사람들과의 교류와 협력을 통해 공동체의 일원으로서 살아가는 모습을 보여줌.
* 🙏 **라다크의 자연과 사람들 속에서 삶의 의미와 평화를 찾음.**  "이곳에 온 것은 선택이었지만, 동시에 이곳에 선택받은 것 같다"는 부부의 말은 그들의 감정을 잘 나타냄.
* 🌱 라다크에서의 삶은 단순히 생존을 넘어 **자연과 조화를 이루는 삶**이며, 꿈꿔왔던 이상적인 삶의 모습을 현실로 만들어가는 과정임.
* ✨  **미국 자본주의 사회에 대한 회의감과 라다크에서 찾은 삶의 가치**에 대한 메시지를 전달하는 다큐멘터리.

[Music] So she had this vision of returning to Ladakh when she first mentioned it to me, I

said, 'Can I come too?' But then later she was like, 'I didn't think you were serious. I'm going alone.'

You know, she had that [Music] idea, and I just wanted to be with her more than anything else.

[Music] I really came to Leh and came to Ladakh because of Caitlin, because she was

[Music] [Music] coming, really not knowing how it was going to work, how it was possibly going

to happen. I knew I wanted so much to come to this place [Music] [Music].

Yeah, come on! [Music] One, two! Yeah, yeah! Two! Oh! [Music] Oh, it's a good throw! Good throw!

Song. Sing for the work and sing for, you know, for the encouragement and the joy of the days. That's also so

important in what happens in this village all the time. Our voices and other people's voices, you know, sort of

all mixed together. On the southern side, in the snow. Uh-huh. Coming down from

high. Look! Whoa! [Music] [Music] Coming! Yeah! [Music] Thank you so much! The fire feels so

good. Is it easy to find water? Bring water. Oh yeah! [Music] [Music] Chocolate drink!

I feel so grateful that this traveled with us. Mhm. So special. So far traveled from your home in what jungle place?

Beautiful one. Mhm. To us in America, to Ladakh. Magical beans! I love life in the village and I love the ducky tea, and

also I crave hot chocolate sometimes. I just want to drink hot chocolate. Uh-huh. Yeah, they actually don't—oh, don't

Oh, beautiful Kakadu. I feel like something I've experienced a lot in my life in America

is just so much abundance. There are so many things; who even knows what all, but so much is available all the time to the

point where people just like, just like take it and don't even think about it. You could just drink the chocolate and

then it's gone. Um, but instead, to be here with it and, uh, you know, really savor it and treasure it feels really

good. Also, we have this much right now that, you know, that's how much we can have now. It makes it feel precious, and so to

drink each cup of it and know each time we give it to the pot, like, alright, there won't be more.

[Music] [Inaudible] [Music] We came here and we

stopped. We didn't go any further; we didn't go anywhere else because it felt so good to be here. And so I feel like

yes, we chose this place, and also no, we didn't choose anything, and yes, we were chosen by this place. And also that was only

because we came here with the longing to be chosen by somewhere. [Music] [Music]

getting water, sometimes it's the sound of Caitlin chopping wood that wakes me up in the morning. What the sounds of this village

and the silences of this village give to us is probably indescribable, but you could say that

it's a sense of peace, a sense of space I would say, and sort of rich, like rich soil, like

rich ground for love and appreciation to grow in...

Wow, that whole cliff wall is dry actually. Oh my goodness, I'm so glad he got a new

stove pipe.  Mhm. Been so smoky in our kitchen and looks like a new base for

One of the B cars? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so. Okay, yeah. No, I can't do that to you. Yeah, yeah. I'll

just put them in the sun; it'll be fine. Put them in the sun. Hey, it's [Music]

Okay, thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank [Music] [Music] you. Oh, yeah.

[Music] Great. [Music] One... you remember this place?  Ael, remember coming here in the springtime?

I remember walking through the whole field of it, asking Aseong what it was. I remember that sort of wonder,

thinking about how life could be around these cliffs and huge valleys, and I wondered what a balance

looked like between people and their land. I had never seen it. I had never seen it before we came here, you

know, and now I've almost forgotten the feeling of doubt, you know, of hopelessness.  MH, feeling it's so possible

here that is that matters so much these last years, knowing that it can be, you know, that people can live together that

way. I think before it was an idea; it was like an imagining, you know, a dream.

Yeah, for me too. And this place did feel like walking into a dream. This valley still does. Long Gateway dream. Gateway. Yeah, I feel that.

I remember the day we were harvesting our potatoes. You just being like, "Yes! Finally, we're doing our work. We planted this and we're

harvesting it, and we're going to eat it." I remember that. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for doing that with me. Thank you for

coming here and doing so many other people's work for a while, you know, for a time. You know, I remember when I tried to

convince you to stay in Maine and not go. And we didn't know how our lives would change. No, we had no idea. But I

I knew I needed to come here. I knew it as clearly as I've ever known anything. I don't understand that knowing.

I could see that in you, but we had no idea what would come of coming here.

억대 연봉에도 불구 미국 자본주의에 염증을 느껴 머나먼 세상 밖 가난과 빈곤의 삶을 선택한 부부｜문명과 가장 동떨어진 히말라야 오지 라다크｜인생의 의미｜다큐프라임｜#골라듄다큐

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아내의 라다크 방문 계획에 남편도 동행을 제안했으나, 아내는 처음에는 혼자 가려 했다.

남편은 아내와 함께하고 싶은 마음에 라다크행을 결정했다.

라다크 여행의 불확실성에도 불구하고 남편은 함께 가기로 결정했다.

라다크에 대한 기대감과 방문 목표를 언급한다.

마을 사람들의 노래와 삶의 중요성을 강조한다.

눈 내리는 남쪽 지역의 풍경과 삶의 모습을 묘사한다.

물을 구하는 과정과 초콜릿 음료를 마시는 장면이 나온다.

다른 지역에서 온 사람들과의 교류와 감사하는 마음을 표현한다.

미국과 라다크의 삶의 차이와 풍요로움에 대한 성찰

미국에서의 풍요로움과 라다크에서의 소박함을 비교한다.

미국에서는 풍요로움 속에서 소비가 쉽게 이루어지는 반면, 라다크에서는 모든 것이 소중하게 느껴진다.

라다크에서의 삶은 풍요로움보다는 소중함과 감사함을 느끼게 해준다.

제한된 자원 속에서 더욱 소중하게 느껴지는 삶의 모습을 보여준다.

라다크에 정착한 이유와 그곳에 대한 소속감을 표현한다.

스스로 선택한 것 같으면서도 라다크에 선택받은 느낌을 받았다고 말한다.

마을의 소리와 정적 속에서 평화와 공간감을 느낀다고 말한다.

라다크에서의 삶은 사랑과 감사가 자라는 풍요로운 땅과 같다고 표현한다.

라다크에서의 삶의 변화와 깨달음

라다크의 봄 풍경을 회상하며 자연과 사람의 조화에 대한 감탄을 표현한다.

라다크에서 희망과 가능성을 발견하고 절망감을 잊게 되었다고 말한다.

라다크는 꿈과 같은 곳이며, 사람과 땅의 조화로운 삶을 보여준다고 말한다.

감자 수확을 하며 함께 일하고 수확물을 나누어 먹는 경험을 회상한다.

라다크로의 이주 결정과 그 과정에서의 불확실성을 언급한다.