Generations Come and Go — How to Bear the Scattering

answered by Psalm 90

기원전 편찬(지혜 시편)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Avalon (1990)

dir. Barry Levinson · USA

A large immigrant family scatters more and more across generations, and the scene of everyone gathering for the holidays slowly fades. The bond the first generation kept thins with the years, yet the inherited stories remain. When the scattering cannot be stopped, by what is a family carried on?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Sunk only in sorrow that I cannot hold a scattering family together, do I fail to ask what remains within that flow?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

💡 TL;DR

The Psalm said a thousand years in the eyes of the source are like yesterday when it is past.

📝The Classic Answers

The Psalm said a thousand years in the eyes of the source are like yesterday when it is past. It is lonely to watch a large family scatter with the years, the holiday table where all once gathered growing smaller and smaller. The bond the first immigrant generation held thins in the next, as each drifts off after their own life. I am saddened that I cannot stop this scattering. Yet generations are, by nature, a flowing, and what flows cannot be held. If it cannot be held, it can be left behind — in stories and memory. What binds a scattered family is not one gathering place but the stories each has inherited. Rather than clutching what vanishes, I choose to pass on with care what can be left.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Tell one of your family's old stories to the next generation today, leaving a memory that endures even as you scatter.

📖 Classic Source: Psalm 90. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.