Those Yet to Come Are to Be Held in Awe

answered by Analects, Zi Han

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Finding Forrester (2000)

dir. Gus Van Sant · USA

A reclusive old talent who turned from the world meets a young talent boxed in by prejudice. Is their meeting a burden to each other, or a revival that reopens the doors each had shut?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Can even a person who has withdrawn from the world and sealed himself shut be connected to someone again?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

後生可畏焉知來者之不如今也

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

Those who come after are to be held in awe. How do we know they will not equal who we are now?

💡 TL;DR

Confucius said we should know to hold the young who come after in awe.

📝The Classic Answers

Confucius said we should know to hold the young who come after in awe. This awe is not wariness but respect. Even one who has bolted the door, worn out by the world, finds it open again when he meets a latecomer who recognizes something within him. Teacher and student, in truth, revive each other. Rather than sizing someone up in advance by age or station, I choose to await, with an open heart, what those who come after might hand me.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you underrated someone by age or résumé today, name one thing they might teach you anew.

📖 Classic Source: Analects, Zi Han. 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.