In football, penalty shootouts are always a harsh test for psychology. For goalkeepers, it is a game of judgment, intuition and even luck. But when all choices are wrong, people no longer see probability or circumstances but only bitter results and criticisms are very easy to drop. Hwang Jae-yoon is "dissected" as if he is the only one responsible for everything.
Life is not lacking in such "circulations". There are periods when you choose any direction and feel lost. Going on, you worry about being wrong, stopping, you are afraid of losing, believing in yourself, you are suspected, listening to others, you feel like you have lost yourself. The worst feeling is that the belief in your ability to choose seems to be eroded little by little.
Pressure, then, comes from the noise around. Outsiders only see the results. They are not in that tense moment, but criticism always comes very quickly and very crowded. The important thing is, at such times, people need to learn to stand firm. Not to refute, nor to justify. But to continue to believe that mistakes do not define the whole person. A series of bad penalties do not turn a goalkeeper into a permanent failure.
Strength does not lie in never being wrong, but in the ability to move forward after being wrong many times. Determination is not not about not wavering, but about still moving forward even though your heart is full of doubt. Persistence is not stubbornness, but accepting to pay the price for a journey longer than others imagine.
Then there will be a day when, also that person, in another situation, with the same hands, the same bravery that I have trained through pressure, makes the right choice. At that time, there is no need to say much. Because success will come, answering instead of all previous criticisms.
