When I was in college, I liked to read Gibran's prose and poems. In his "The Prophet", there is a passage about the relationship between parents and children:
"Your children are not your children. They are the children that
life desires for itself. . .
.
Life does not go backwards, nor does it stay with yesterday.
You are the bow, and your children are the arrows of life from the string.
The shooter has set his goal in the infinity, and has drawn you with divine power. full, and let his arrows go forth quickly and far away.
Let your bending in the hands of the archer be joy;
for he loves the arrow that flies, and the bow that is still." I
read this passage at the time I also cried while writing. Parents who are obsessed with their children are grateful and even more heartbreaking. They have long lost their desire for life and their own life, and left everything to their children, but they have forgotten that children are full arrows with their own trajectory and direction. The judgment of the child will be faced sooner or later.
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