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Better to Forget One Another in the Rivers and Lakes
Is love that defies society's gaze freedom, or ruin?
When the spring dries up, the fish are left together on dry land, moistening each other with their breath, wetting each other with their spit. But this is not as good as forgetting one another in the rivers and lakes.
Zhuangzi said it is better to swim freely, forgetting one another, in a wide river than to be fish stranded on dry land, barely moistening each other.
📝The Classic Answers
Zhuangzi said it is better to swim freely, forgetting one another, in a wide river than to be fish stranded on dry land, barely moistening each other. A woman's love, confined within the narrow norms of society, cannot, in the end, find the water to breathe through tenderness alone. What she longed for may not have been love itself, but a river wide enough for that love to swim freely in. A love a narrow world refuses to permit remains, in the end, a struggle on dry land. The more tender a love is, I consider alongside it whether there is a wide enough place for it to breathe.
🌱Apply It Today
If there is a tender but suffocating relationship in your life today, ask together whether it has a wide enough place to breathe.
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