Even a Bond That Looks Like Chance Ripens in Its Time

answered by I Ching (Book of Changes)

기원전 편찬(십익 전국~한대)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

My Sassy Girl (2001)

dir. Kwak Jae-yong · South Korea

Two people meet, miss each other, and trade wounds. Carrying the ache of loss, the bond nonetheless keeps reconnecting. Should one let this repeated mis-timing pass as chance, or see it as waiting for a time not yet ripe?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

A bond that keeps reconnecting through missteps and wounds — is it chance, or an appointed time?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

The I Ching held that all things have their own time to ripen — force it early and it goes awry; let the time come and it fulfills itself.

📝The Classic Answers

The I Ching held that all things have their own time to ripen — force it early and it goes awry; let the time come and it fulfills itself. A bond that keeps missing is not failure but perhaps a time not yet arrived. Even the time of trading wounds and waiting for each other is one knot of the bond. I choose not to yank the ending forward in haste. If I endure the present mis-timing and keep myself, then in the ripened time the bond returns in its true form.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If a bond that keeps missing makes you anxious, rather than force the ending, keep yourself and wait once for the time to ripen.

📖 Classic Source: I Ching (Book of Changes).
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.