Every kind person is like a diligent farmer, sowing seeds of love in fields that may be fertile or barren. Although the effort each person gives differs, the goal is always the same: to harvest more love.
Physical development has the greatest impact before adulthood; psychological development becomes more evident in middle age; and spiritual development becomes most prominent in later life. A life that combines elegance with wrinkles is especially moving, and a wise old age often radiates brilliant light.
A person's achievement is not measured by money, but by how many people they have treated kindly and how many people remember them. A business ledger records income and expenses, and their difference reflects profit or loss; the ledger of life records love given and love received, and their sum becomes one's true achievement.
Sometimes one wishes to suddenly wake up and find oneself still asleep in a primary school classroom, realizing that everything experienced was just a dream, with drool still on the desk. You tell your classmate about the long dream, and they laugh at you and tell you to pay attention in class. You look out at the playground, everything feels familiar and full of hope.
The Book of Rites states that after the age of seventy, a person's nature becomes like that of a child, most in need of care and comfort; elderly people also fear loneliness the most. Therefore, being attentive to parents' feelings, caring for them often, easing their worries, and bringing them joy is also an important way of fulfilling filial duty.
