The 2026 World Cup final just ended early this morning (July 20), right on the first day of the week. Surely many people, especially football fans, leave home to go to work with a different, somewhat lacking feeling. The story of the match between Spain and Argentina will still be commented on and discussed excitedly, but the feeling of emptiness appears from within, when knowing that the "days living at night" have ended.
Usually, what is done in 21 consecutive days will form a habit. With the 2026 World Cup lasting nearly a month and a half, clearly, the "habit" of waiting for matches continuously from night to morning, even midday, has become a part of life.
Of course, no matter how enthusiastic you are, you still have to go to work, go to school, to be forced to prepare your health, arrange your time, but the cycle of the World Cup is too attractive to feel the desire for matches to become a habit. And in a flash, 104 matches passed, to remind people that, just yesterday, they still said "how many matches to watch until it's over".
With the current technology era, the World Cup may not disrupt the lives of many people as before, because people can read newspapers, watch highlights and still be able to analyze and comment instead of spending time watching live at night, which is harmful to health, but from a certain perspective, watching live football at night still has its own pleasure, with each person and each group having a different way of enjoying it.
That is why there is a feeling of disappointment when that series of days ends. That is also common in life. Although knowing that every joy will come at an end, people still feel regret, feel empty when returning from a vacation, from a long trip...
The disappointment is proof that the journey through touches true emotions. Life is inherently a continuous chain of cycles. Accepting emptiness after each "fun" to preserve beautiful values as energy for the next journey. And for Vietnamese fans, after the North American summer is the ASEAN Cup with the national team...
