{"product_id":"135629","title":"To the forty ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYCU98P233sxnMW2fw7SOofqOpjgJ.png?v=1765105006\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e To the forty \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“The words of encouragement I most want to believe in are in this book.” _ Professor Na Min-ae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A message from an eighty-year-old poet to those crossing the cold and hot age of forty.\u003cbr\u003e Adult comfort and encouragement to believe in\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e National poet Na Tae-ju published a collection of essays titled “To Forty.”\u003cbr\u003e In 2025, when I will be 80 years old, I will write a collection of stories that I would like to leave behind for those who have lived half of their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Longer life, longer life.\u003cbr\u003e In a world where the concept of age is changing, forty is still an age that feels young. \u003cbr\u003eBut for someone who is actually over forty, it will feel different.\u003cbr\u003e If we were to compare it to a season, wouldn't it feel like enduring the scorching midsummer like a deepening green?\u003cbr\u003e What is clear is that this is a time when you feel like you are at a turning point in your life.\u003cbr\u003e To those in their forties, the poet says, “Let’s live a little longer.”\u003cbr\u003e Even when difficult moments come, don't panic or stop, just move forward little by little, giving them the encouragement they need now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I have written in this book what I have seen, heard, and felt over the many days I have lived, and I hope to give it to you, the young people, who are at a turning point in your lives.” (From the Preface)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The story the poet wants to convey is not a grand story about life lessons or life philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e These are just small, trivial stories that come to mind as you go through life in your forties. \u003cbr\u003eFrom the poet's voice, which speaks of gratitude and happiness in the blowing wind, the passing white clouds, and even a single blooming flower, we learn the power to willingly love our present life.\u003cbr\u003e The comfort and encouragement from a true adult who is twice as old as forty, who can barely be called an adult, will be the strength that forty-year-olds need most as they navigate the hot summer of life.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Recommended Article: Even Forty Needs Adults\u003cbr\u003e At the age of eighty, at the beginning of the book\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Forty: On the Road to Meeting the Me of My Childhood Dreams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A life that can be fixed\u003cbr\u003e Success in life\u003cbr\u003e Now is a good time\u003cbr\u003e Why do we live?\u003cbr\u003e A letter written in advance - to my son and daughter\u003cbr\u003e There is no tomorrow\u003cbr\u003e Life with dinner\u003cbr\u003e Minor era\u003cbr\u003e nevertheless\u003cbr\u003e immersion\u003cbr\u003e Making a living\u003cbr\u003e Four things I did well\u003cbr\u003e Blessings of Heaven\u003cbr\u003e A person who is over-qualified\u003cbr\u003e For the younger generation \u003cbr\u003eTurning point\u003cbr\u003e Wrong way\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Small, old, and common things are all wildflowers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e music box\u003cbr\u003e Wooden horse and strawberry\u003cbr\u003e Shahira\u003cbr\u003e Shahira's \"Wildflowers\"\u003cbr\u003e Phantasm\u003cbr\u003e Finding the way of the horse\u003cbr\u003e Wildflower Literature Museum\u003cbr\u003e Bicycles at the Literature Museum\u003cbr\u003e annual plant\u003cbr\u003e Evening Literature Lecture\u003cbr\u003e Why the poet \"Wildflowers\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Wildflower\" autograph\u003cbr\u003e Greetings to the flowers\u003cbr\u003e I ask my poem\u003cbr\u003e good night\u003cbr\u003e I am you\u003cbr\u003e Please don't get sick\u003cbr\u003e To my wife\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: Happiness, Like a Rainbow Created by the Heart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Am I really okay?\u003cbr\u003e What is happiness?\u003cbr\u003e Already a happy person\u003cbr\u003e Dalai Lama's advice\u003cbr\u003e bicycle\u003cbr\u003e hemp clothes\u003cbr\u003e Happiness is also a learning process\u003cbr\u003e Items of Happiness\u003cbr\u003e The path to happiness\u003cbr\u003e Small happiness and good fortune\u003cbr\u003e A few bank notes\u003cbr\u003e treasure jar\u003cbr\u003e beggar\u003cbr\u003e A welcome gift of happiness\u003cbr\u003e An actor who knows the true taste of poetry\u003cbr\u003e Pulling out weeds\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 4 Even so, love is always a blessing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First love, and unrequited love\u003cbr\u003e Invitation to travel\u003cbr\u003e Encouraging sentences\u003cbr\u003e Dreaming of June\u003cbr\u003e Reconciliation and forgiveness\u003cbr\u003e Even if the instep is swollen\u003cbr\u003e Lifelong teacher \u003cbr\u003eThank you for being alive\u003cbr\u003e For the beauty\u003cbr\u003e Listen to Tolstoy\u003cbr\u003e liking people\u003cbr\u003e Excessive politeness\u003cbr\u003e Love, Lies\u003cbr\u003e Second best life\u003cbr\u003e Poet's Seat\u003cbr\u003e To my daughter\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5156\/MidCate008\/515573311.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e A truly successful person is someone who, while doing what they love and are good at, gradually realizes the person they dreamed of as a child as they grow older.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The same is true when we think we have taken a wrong turn or failed in life.\u003cbr\u003e Let's start again, believing that this will be a good opportunity to open a new path for tomorrow.\u003cbr\u003e The path you are taking now may become a new path for you.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Just as I was helped by reading other people's poetry when I was young and in difficult times, my poem, please fly as far as you can and help someone I don't know yet. \u003cbr\u003eBe a comfort, a joy, and a blessing to them.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e sorry.\u003cbr\u003e thank you.\u003cbr\u003e I'm so grateful that you've endured and lived with someone like me for so long.\u003cbr\u003e It's late to say this, but I think meeting you was the greatest luck I've ever had in this world, and meeting you was the greatest bad luck I've ever had.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Let's take a closer look at me.\u003cbr\u003e Let's try to understand me a little better.\u003cbr\u003e So let's create another path for me to go with you.\u003cbr\u003e How am I doing today? Sometimes, it's worth greeting myself and asking how I'm doing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If so, happiness is also learning.\u003cbr\u003e We are willing to practice happiness and prepare ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e We are people who live well enough now.\u003cbr\u003e People who don't know how to live well end up living poorly.\u003cbr\u003e We are happy enough people today.\u003cbr\u003e People who do not know what happiness is become unhappy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.172\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe flowers that I liked and wrote poems about and drew were flowers that bloomed on weeds rather than flowers that bloomed on plants.\u003cbr\u003e If I think about it, it's a bit of a contradiction that I'm pulling out weeds indiscriminately like this.\u003cbr\u003e Wasn't I also a weed that could have been uprooted by someone's wicked hands at some point, under some circumstances?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That is the developmental task that people truly must accomplish as they grow older.\u003cbr\u003e In my case, the first person I needed to forgive and reconcile with was my father.\u003cbr\u003e And next is the son.\u003cbr\u003e This developmental task of mine is still in progress.\u003cbr\u003e I don't know how far I'll go, but I want to live long enough to do that.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am grateful for all the love that has passed and I also pay tribute to all the love that will come again.\u003cbr\u003e Love, live forever.\u003cbr\u003e My beloved heart, even though you are tired and staggering, you are beautiful. \u003cbr\u003eSomeone's life, with love, will become infinitely smaller and shabby, but it will also become infinitely more profound, deeper, and more fragrant.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is a humility and softness in the second best that the best cannot keep up with.\u003cbr\u003e There is also a soft leisure.\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps the path to true happiness lies in knowing how to be content with less-than-ideal choices or outcomes.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But if you ever have a really hard day in life or a day when you feel like you can't breathe, I want you to look up at the sky.\u003cbr\u003e There, through the wind, through the white clouds, through the moon and stars, your father will be looking down on you.\u003cbr\u003e I hope you will think of your father with your heart at that time.\u003cbr\u003e Even in the sound of a bird you hear on the road or in a single flower blooming on the roadside, your father's heart will live on.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- pp.255-256\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“I wrote down in this book what I felt while living many days.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I want to give this to you young people who are at a turning point in your lives.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This year, 2025, poet Na Tae-ju, born in 1945, turns 80.\u003cbr\u003e Poet Na Tae-ju, who is like an eternal boy and says, “Even though I am 80 years old, my heart still beats with instability and restlessness,” has published a collection of essays titled “To the Forty” to commemorate his eighty-year-old age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eighty, in some ways, is an age where you see more of the scenery behind you than the scenery ahead.\u003cbr\u003e Looking back, the most difficult time for poet Na Tae-ju was his 40s.\u003cbr\u003e So the poet took up his pen to tell a small story to the young people who are going through that time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Even though the social environment and historical background may have changed, the fact that the age of forty is considered a turning point in life will remain unchanged. \u003cbr\u003eWhether at work, at home, personally or socially, it is clear that life is gradually changing from before and that we must prepare for the future.\u003cbr\u003e The poet calls this time a turning point in life and tells us not to panic even if it is confusing, but to live a little longer.\u003cbr\u003e Sometimes, even if life feels overwhelming and overwhelming, let's just live a little more.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We are the first people who live each day as the first day.”\u003cbr\u003e The power to love life today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book, consisting of short prose pieces by poet Na Tae-ju, is largely divided into stories about life, poetry, happiness, and love.\u003cbr\u003e These are the fundamental values ​​of humanity that the poet thinks of.\u003cbr\u003e But just because someone who has lived longer says something doesn't mean they are trying to tell a bigger story.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, they are small and trivial stories. \u003cbr\u003eTo poet Na Tae-ju, small, old, and common things are all wildflowers, and in fact, the trivial things right next to us are ultimately the most precious and important things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In that sense, when is the best time in life, according to the poet? Right now.\u003cbr\u003e Where is the best place? Right here, where we are now.\u003cbr\u003e Therefore, people in their forties and eighties are always living in good times.\u003cbr\u003e This is the message the eighty-year-old poet wants to leave us, who are crossing the cold and hot forties.\u003cbr\u003e “Today is the first day of the remaining days of my life.\u003cbr\u003e Therefore, we are new people living a new day every day, and we are the first people living the first day.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “We need adults.\u003cbr\u003e We need someone who is more mature than we are as adults.\u003cbr\u003e I sometimes think of my father as an adult, not a father, and I listen to what he says. \u003cbr\u003eIn the end, I hope we too can become smiling adults.\u003cbr\u003e (From Professor Na Min-ae’s letter of recommendation)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As Professor Na Min-ae of Seoul National University, daughter of poet Na Tae-ju, who is in her 40s, said, we, as adults, also need the comfort and encouragement of adults.\u003cbr\u003e Through the warm life stories of those who have lived before us, we will gain not only comfort but also the energy to fill our future lives with beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 258 pages | 350g | 128*188*17mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9791173470981\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1173470980 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43893562638378,"sku":"135629","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/ce83e5623a575210294be6e249162a27.jpg?v=1765406180","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/135629","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}