In Joy He Forgets His Cares and Never Feels Age Approach

answered by Analects, Shu Er

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

dir. Wim Wenders · Germany

People who once shone and were then forgotten by the world take up again what they loved. Is that joy, revived in their waning years, only a passing regret, or does it make them forget care and age alike and raise them up once more?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Can even one the world has forgotten stand up again by handing over, once more, what he loves?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

發憤忘食樂以忘憂不知老之將至

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

In his eagerness he forgets to eat; in his joy he forgets his cares, and does not notice old age coming on.

💡 TL;DR

Confucius said that in his eagerness he forgot to eat, in his joy forgot his cares, and did not notice old age coming on.

📝The Classic Answers

Confucius said that in his eagerness he forgot to eat, in his joy forgot his cares, and did not notice old age coming on. What lifts a person up again is neither youth nor circumstance but the joy of losing oneself in what one loves. Even one thought forgotten by the world comes back to life — forgetting his age and his lot — the moment he takes up again what he truly loves and hands it to others. Joy cannot turn back the years, yet it makes the days that remain shine as if for the first time. I look to see whether that joy, the kind that makes me forget even my cares, is still alive in me.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Today, take up again one thing that delights you enough to forget your age or your lot, and share it with someone.

📖 Classic Source: Analects, Shu Er. 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.