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Chapter 27 Eternal Life

[China] Yan Wenjing

It is like a tireless traveler, maybe it just stays in a certain individual for a while, and then leaves again, but it exists forever.

The days gone will never come back.When one turns thirty one finds that something is missing, a molar, a cecum, some hair on the forehead, a little taste for joking, or your whole youth.Those things, like the lost years, are yours only once.They have left you and will never return.So what if you are a wise man!Your strength is so small that you can't make any decisions about the affairs of life.Life is not like a shirt. When you find it dirty and torn, you can take it off, wash it, and mend it again.If you have ever worried about something, at most you can only try to forget it, but you can't cancel the trace of its existence.We are all so pitiful in this matter!
However, everything is still optimistic.This is due to the greatness of life itself: life can continuously create new life.It's an ordinary thing, and it's a wonderful magic trick.Just like the grass on the ground, they are so humble and weak. After each severe winter, they still get out of the soil one by one, happily facing the spring wind, as if facing the cruelty of the past. Like knowing nothing.We watched with equal emotion the calves hopping on the hillside, whose golden down seemed fresh from the sun.

I had to think of the meaning of eternal immortality.Thank you for the miracle of life!It is not a temporary thing.It is like a tireless traveler, maybe it just stays in a certain individual for a while, and then leaves again, but it exists forever.

It is full of hope, endlessly multiplying, spreading, declaring its joy everywhere.What an admirable thing this should be!

My friends, it looks like we should be braver.When we understand the true meaning of life, our hearts should be brighter.Let us cry out with all confidence the truth we have found: Nothing permanent and immortal can be killed by those tyrants!Let us praise life, praise the eternal life, we will praise it with work and love.It is a flower that will never wither, it will always give the world color and fragrance.

Heart mark notes
Regarding the thinking of "life and eternity", the author's tentacles have penetrated into the essential level of life in the world.For an individual, life is limited, it may be lost after a certain germ ravages, or it may come to an end in a certain cold night.But with any end, there is a new beginning.The moment a life dies, a new life is born.Just like a car driving on a highway, when one car goes out from the exit, another car just enters from the entrance.This is how the world goes on and on, and life goes on and on and on and on.Constant birth, constant death, constant renewal, this is eternity.

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