I read, write and throw away

Description

Perfectly establishing Son Heung-min's soccer life
Father Son Woong-jeong's reading notes, a story that cuts right through the center!

In March 2023, director Son Woong-jeong returned to Korea with six reading notes he had written in England. I have never shown this note to anyone in his family, including Son Heung-min. He humbly says that he is insignificant because he had no intention of showing it to anyone, but the time he has accumulated in his reading notes contains the questions he has faced with his whole body and the wise insights that have helped him see difficulties as stepping stones rather than obstacles. For Son Woong-jeong, reading was an attempt to find the sentences he desperately needed and use that insight as a stepping stone to look at his current situation from a different angle. It was an effort to look far, deeply, and broadly by borrowing the wisdom of the book and the author to figure out how to live well in this world. Therefore, Son Woong-Jeong refers to note copying as a process for his body to understand what he read and wrote. He said it was like writing on his own body rather than on a notebook. When director Son Woong-jeong finds a good book, he reads it at least three times. He writes in his notebook using a black ballpoint pen for the first reading, a blue ballpoint pen for the second reading, and a red ballpoint pen for the third reading. I draw lines through sentences to memorize, mark idioms or words to engrave with stars, write down ideas for further study, read the book combatively, and copy them into my notebook. A book is something that doesn't stick in your mind if you don't write it down, so you keep it as a record rather than relying on memory. The content was Son Woong-jeong's own 'study' itself, focusing on what I need now, including history, characters, common sense, classics, English, Chinese characters, and exercise, and discarding what I do not need and making it creatively. The study starts with the basics of “using your eyes first.”

Life is a process of pursuing value, not success.
These are the days of struggle to become a better person.

Regardless of whether they win or lose, they play the game a little differently, and I want to hear that. Of course, it would be nice to win the game, but I consider performance first. Even if you have superior performance, you can still lose. You can take ten goals. why? My goal is to score 10 goals now, 20 goals, later reduce it to 15 goals, reduce it to 10 goals, reduce it to 5 goals, reduce it to 2 goals, reduce it to 1 goal, and try to give some color to the soccer I want. If it's a lifelong dream, that's one thing. I never play soccer just to win. I want to play soccer with courtesy. Even if I put everything aside, I really want to hear this expression. “Wow, you play soccer beautifully.” _"coach"

Football can be said to be a microcosm of life in which the same situation does not occur every time. You must quickly recognize the changing spatial situation from moment to moment and make impromptu decisions about what kind of play to play. Just like in the playground where we have to constantly think and judge while bumping into opponents with our bodies, in life we ​​have to make mistakes, fail, go through trial and error and overcome them in real time to create our own. Since no one is perfect or perfect, Director Son Woong-jeong advises us to keep cleaning, thinking, exercising, and reading books. For those who want to live like a real person no matter how they live each day, of course there is no right answer to life, but living once is not the same life as everyone else, not a life without thought, but is there a way to live like a proper person? Maybe it is time to think about it. I might give this book as a gift (「Thoughts」). If you want to get little, you can sacrifice a little, but if you want to get a lot, you have to sacrifice a lot (the “basic”) makes us reflect on what we are holding on to and cannot let go, and what values ​​we should prioritize in our lives right now. do.

My bed is in the middle of the room. That way you can clean both sides. If you leave it that way, there will be a space between the bed and the wall where you can lie down, and it looks exactly like a coffin. I just lie there once a day. Then I look back on my day. When you say your life ends today, what will you regret the most? That's how you take care of your regrets. _"dignity"

● Together

In March 2023, I returned to Korea from the UK with six of my reading notes. I have never shown this note to anyone in my family, including Heungmin. Reading books and writing reading notes have been my daily routine for the past 3 years, so I didn't think it was really worth making a fuss and showing my face. Maybe my family knew about my personality and didn't even suggest taking a look or giving it a try. Of course, even if I saw it, I thought it wouldn't have been long before it was covered up because I had the worst handwriting in the world. The handwriting is a strange development, and there are numerous cryptic notes that only I can understand. The reason these notes were able to be recorded so freely in multiple volumes is because I have never once dreamed of returning to books.

“The purpose of this insignificant reading note is a very trivial thing that I started just for my own benefit.” I remember passingly talking to poet Kim Min-jeong, whom I met by chance. But soon, I was caught up in these words. Even now, I still cannot fully understand the poet's words, how 'a very small thing that started out just for myself' can become 'a very big thing for everyone.' However, starting with my reading notes (I still wonder how you read my handwriting!), there is no reason to run away when you say, “Everything that can be shared when talking about life with a love for books.” There was no surge. And it has been held captive ever since.

When I was wondering what the word I uttered the most before compiling the conversations I had with poet Kim Min-jeong and publisher Nanda's deputy director Seong-won Yoo into this one volume was 'throw away'. I don't know why the word that hit me so hard in my head at that moment was 'forge,' but I was relieved that I was on the same page, so I took the time to open a Korean dictionary. “To make one’s mind or will strong by refining and training it.” If my abandonment can be understood as my training, I may be able to feel a little lighter from the regret of wanting to put aside my long-winded words. I just hope that you will listen kindly.

2024/4
bow your head
손웅정