If There Is a Time to Part, There Is a Time to Live On Apart

answered by Ecclesiastes 3:2

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🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

dir. Jacques Demy · France

Waiting and the weight of reality separate two young lovers, who go on to build different lives. Should an unfulfilled first love be called a failure, or seen as a natural season flowing into each one's own life?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

When an ardent first love is parted by life's circumstances into separate paths, has that love failed?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

💡 TL;DR

Ecclesiastes says, "There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot." Love, too, has a time to meet and a time to part into separate paths.

📝The Classic Answers

Ecclesiastes says, "There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot." Love, too, has a time to meet and a time to part into separate paths. That a love went unfulfilled does not make it false. First love often comes not to be fulfilled but to make us grow by a hand's breadth. I refuse to count a parted love as failure. Even after each flows into their own life, the heart that cherished the other remains, still warming each of them.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

If you have counted an unfulfilled past love as failure, recall one way it helped you grow.

📖 Classic Source: Ecclesiastes 3:2.
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.