溫故知新 Old wisdom, today’s insight — ONGO
One Generation Passes, Another Comes
Do I see the lives of different generations as disconnected, missing that their questions run on like a single river?
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.
Ecclesiastes said one generation passes and another comes.
📝The Classic Answers
Ecclesiastes said one generation passes and another comes. A grandfather, a father, and a child each live different times, yet before the questions of love, regret, and death they float on the same river. What the three generations of one family undergo in their own places is not separate stories but one life unfolding at several ages at once. I feel the distance between generations only as rupture, yet in truth the question I face now, my parents and grandparents passed through the same in their own seasons. A bond is the eye that recognizes this continuity. In the lives before me I see a trailer of my own questions, and in the next generation, their echo.
🌱Apply It Today
Take one worry you face now, imagine a parent or grandparent passed through the same in youth, and ask them about that time.
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.
