One Generation Goes, Another Comes — Yet Love Returns

answered by Ecclesiastes 1:4

기원전 3세기경(지혜문학)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Gilsotteum (1985)

dir. Im Kwon-taek · South Korea

War splits a family, and after decades the scattered stand face to face again. Was the severed bond merely something that flowed away, or does it carry on like a seed across the years to be rejoined? Where is the strength that ties again a bond long broken?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Can a bond severed by war be joined again across the generations?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

One generation passes and another comes, but the earth abides forever.

💡 TL;DR

Ecclesiastes says, "One generation goes and another comes, but the earth remains forever." People each come and go, but the bonds that flow above them carry across generations.

📝The Classic Answers

Ecclesiastes says, "One generation goes and another comes, but the earth remains forever." People each come and go, but the bonds that flow above them carry across generations. That ties severed by war stand face to face again decades later is no accident; it shows a bond living on like a seed across the years. I refuse to see a broken bond as merely sorrow flowed away. Even if the rejoined place is not what it was, at every knot where a bond breaks and joins again, it still flows on and calls a new spring for the next generation.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you regret a bond long broken, recall one thing it left to the present you and to the next generation.

📖 Classic Source: Ecclesiastes 1:4.
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.