Reading the book 10am on Sunday by journalist To Phan reminded the writer of Alfred Adler.
Alfred Adler was once famous for saying, "A happy child uses his childhood to embrace life, an unfortunate child uses his whole life to heal his childhood". There, he means that children with happy children will carry that happy memory throughout their later adult journey to heal the wounds of life. Conversely, babies with unfortunate mothers will spend the rest of their lives healing the damage to mothers.
In the book 10am on Sunday, there are many pages written about children, family, parents and relatives of journalist To Phan. Just enough for readers to feel, his family - children and relatives always hold the most important position of him throughout his journey to adulthood. They are both strength and support, motivation and comfort, and the reason for him to leave his hometown to start a business in the city, and also the reason why he will return wherever he goes.
To Phan loves his family, loves his family, loves his hometown, and loves his childhood to the point of having gone through it - despite his obsession with debt, hardship, and poverty, he still named that memory with beautiful, loving memories. He saw a hard and miserable life through the lens of gratitude and appreciation.
10am on Sunday strangely reminds me of Alfred Adler. Alfred Adler is a psychologist, born in a village in the western suburbs of Vienna (authory), the second son of seven children of a grain trader family.
Alfred Adler once researched, "each individual is an existence, not created by past events but by the way that the individual assigns meaning to past events".
Journalist To Phan is the second child in a family of 6 children in Thanh Hoa. The way he specifies the meaning of events, memories, and recallings in the years he lived - moved readers.
Mobilized because no matter how the word is expressed, it is full of a love letter. Motive because, whether he wrote in a flashback to the past or in his analysis, expressing his thoughts and experiences as a man with silver hair... he still found it full of remorse, full of respect for his family, for his homeland, for those he had met, for those he had met, for those he had met, for the dishes of the poor period, or the meetings that made his life change direction. Journalist To Phan remembers everyone, appreciates everyone and is grateful to everyone.
Each article, from the story of " debtor-view camera", recounting the childhood of a poor family of 9, "running every meal" all year round, to the memories on each page of the article, the most special thing is the "meaningful way" for journalist To Phan to commemorate.
For him, the poor child was named after the deep, heavy memories that have lasted until now. He wrote, the suffocating feeling of a child starting to grow up seeing his mother standing in front of a neighbors house, holding an empty spear, looking down at the ground in shyness, haunting me forever, My deep memories of my childhood are not playing with friends of the same age, but the yearning of my parents..., I learn to appreciate every penny I earn, know how to share and help my relatives when I can. And I always live with gratitude to those who have helped me and my family in difficult times...
Poetry, homeland, poor and hard life, mother's face, father's eyes... always follow the author closely, always his luggage - when leaving or returning. The hardships of poor life still affect, still wandering in the dream of journalist To Phan, influencing his current life, deciding his personality and habits - even when he has a full life.
Author To Phan always feels debt, debt of gratitude, debt of an apology that he has not had time to say... That debt helps his pages of writing to be complete, full, and full of affection.
He misses his mother, misses his hometown's dishes, misses his father's eyes looking at his mother, misses his mother's beautiful hair that was once washed with a toothpick, misses the gifts that his grandmother gave him... Every memory of his love has spread, sympathy, from the words that come out, permeating the reader.
Journalist To Quang Phan was born in 1961, from Thanh Hoa. Throughout his career as a journalist, journalist To Phan has been associated with many newspapers such as Lao Dong, Hanoi Moi... In 2016, journalist To Quang Phan was appointed General Director of PT&TH Hanoi Station. In 2021, he retired under the regime.
