One Generation Goes, Another Comes — Yet Love Returns

answered by Ecclesiastes 1:4

기원전 3세기경(지혜문학)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

The Classic (2003)

dir. Kwak Jae-yong · South Korea

One generation's unfulfilled first love repeats, in a similar shape, in the next. Was the loss of the past love merely something that flowed away, or does it carry on like a seed into the next generation's love and bloom again?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

When a mother's unfulfilled love blooms again in her daughter's generation, does love carry across the generations?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

Ecclesiastes says, "One generation goes and another comes, but the earth remains forever." People each come and go, but the love that flows above them carries 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 love that flows above them carries across generations. That a mother's unfulfilled heart blooms again in her daughter is no accident; it shows love living on like a seed across the generations. I refuse to see a past generation's loss as merely sorrow flowed away. Even an unfulfilled love becomes the ground for the next, and calls spring again.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you regret an unfulfilled past love, recall one thing it passed on to the present you and 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.