The U23 Vietnam player said that he did not realize "maybe his body is tired". Why didn't he realize it? Because there was no problem before the match. No pain, no unusual signs, but just a very simple retreat that broke the ligament. In fact, the body always sends a signal when warning is needed, but not enough to receive attention or know but ignore it.
This issue is not just about sports, but for everyone in daily life. It's like caring about everything but neglecting your own body, the only place you have to live.
Many people don't "fall down" immediately. They still go to work, still complete work, still live normally. But inside are restless sleep, feeling heavy in the morning, irritability of unknown cause, back pain, neck pain, headache that passes by and then disappears. All are very mild, very familiar, to the point that people learn to... ignore them.
Modern life talks a lot about effort, but rarely teaches how to listen. Try a little more. Try a little more. This time it's okay. But the body doesn't work like that. It records everything. To accumulate little by little every day until a "very simple situation" occurs. The most regrettable thing is not the injury, but the feeling "if only I had realized it sooner".
Learning to feel your body is not something lofty. Just simply paying attention to your sleep every night, your mood is excited or struggling. Is understanding that fatigue is not always expressed by pain.
In sports, a good person is not necessarily because they practice the most, but someone who knows how to keep themselves for the longest. Life and work are also the same. Efficiency does not mean consumption to the point of exhaustion. Strength does not come from ignoring but from respecting the body.
The body is always "talking", but in a world with too many worries, we no longer have patience to listen. And when the sound of a breakage echoes, whether on the football field or in life, it is often too late.
Learning to feel the body, sometimes, is just daring to speak, daring to share psychological and physiological issues to know when to stop. That is understanding, not weakness, so as not to pay too high a price.
