A Time to Mourn, and a Time to Dance

answered by Ecclesiastes 3:4

기원전 3세기경(지혜문학)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Love Story (1970)

dir. Arthur Hiller · USA

One knows in advance the time together is short. The deeper the love, the sharper the coming loss. Between guarding the heart to soften the pain and loving fully though briefly, which does one choose?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Knowing you will lose the one you love too soon, is it foolish to have begun loving at all?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

There is a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

💡 TL;DR

Ecclesiastes says there is "a time to mourn and a time to dance." The old wisdom set sorrow and joy side by side as the two faces of a life.

📝The Classic Answers

Ecclesiastes says there is "a time to mourn and a time to dance." The old wisdom set sorrow and joy side by side as the two faces of a life. To postpone love because loss is fated is to sit out the dance for fear of it. A love that burned briefly is still love, and the warmth its fire leaves lasts longer than the grief. Rather than hoard my heart against loss, I choose to dance fully in the time I am given now.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If fear of an eventual ending makes you hold back, offer that person one unstinting word today.

📖 Classic Source: Ecclesiastes 3:4.
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.