Neither Grasping Nor Casting Off — Releasing When the Time Comes

answered by Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3

기원전 편찬(지혜문학)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Late Spring (1949)

dir. Yasujiro Ozu · Japan

A widowed father and a daughter who would stay to care for him cherish each other, yet the father resolves to send her off into her own life. The wish to keep her near collides with the need to release her for her future. Is love a holding on, or a letting go?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

In my wish to keep a loved one near, am I delaying the time to release them into their own life?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.

💡 TL;DR

Ecclesiastes said there is a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.

📝The Classic Answers

Ecclesiastes said there is a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. Love holds both the time to grasp and the time to release. A widowed father sending his daughter off in marriage is a release done not for lack of love but because of it. In the moment he presses down the wish to keep her near and sends his child off into her own life, a parent's love wears its most mature face. I take love to be only the strength to hold, yet true love also knows how to let go. Releasing is not the end of a bond but the completion of a love that respects the other as a person. I choose to weigh together the wish to hold and the time to release.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If there is someone you wish to keep near, consider one thing you must release now for their sake.

📖 Classic Source: Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3. 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.