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A Parent Worries Only for the Child's Suffering
Do I believe love requires qualification, carelessly judging a clumsy love as a love without the right?
A parent worries only over one thing — that the child might fall ill.
Confucius painted the essence of a parent's love as worry — the anxious heart that dreads a child falling ill.
📝The Classic Answers
Confucius painted the essence of a parent's love as worry — the anxious heart that dreads a child falling ill. I set this beside a love that is clumsy and unsteady. A father ashamed of a boy who cannot see, who would keep him at a distance, seems hard, yet tangled at the bottom of that too is a fear that the child will be hurt by a harsh world. That a love is clumsy does not make it not love. The problem is our scale, which drives that clumsiness into "no right to love" and denies the love itself. The clearness of a boy tracing the colors of the world with his fingertips already sees what the father's eyes have failed to see. When someone's love feels clumsy, I choose, before judging the clumsiness, first to weigh the fear and the sincerity tangled within it.
🌱Apply It Today
When someone's love feels clumsy, before faulting the clumsiness, first weigh the fear and the sincerity tangled within it.
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.
