A middle-aged person, pressed under a dull routine, secretly takes up again a thrill long folded away. Is reviving a past dream a childishness that ignores reality, or the virtue of a life that renews itself day by day?
THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS
To take up again, in middle age, a dream folded away in youth — is that childish?
THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL
日新之謂盛德
📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER
To be renewed day by day — this is called abundant virtue.
💡 TL;DR
The I Ching called daily renewal abundant virtue.
📝The Classic Answers
The I Ching called daily renewal abundant virtue. Renewal has no age ceiling. To unfold in middle age a dream folded away in youth is not a regression backward but a virtue that makes today new. 'It's too late' is only the excuse of one who has stopped renewing himself. Even inside a hardened routine, the person who begins one thing anew grows younger each day. Before I cage myself with 'at my age,' I look for one thing I can make new today.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Take one thing you folded away with 'too old for that' and begin it again today, even in the smallest form.
📖 Classic Source:
I Ching, Great Commentary I.
Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
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.
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A Bridge Between Eras — the wisdoms this question threads
Reading the new through the old — classics this question awakens.
