If Parents Still Work Hard, What is the Meaning of Our Growth?
This statement seems very touching at first, but impossible to sustain scrutiny. The wording suggests that children should enjoy themselves without hardship after growing up, otherwise, growing up has no meaning. This is a classic example of moral coercion, completely ignoring the meaning of life and the respect for life.
If we follow this logic, parents can enjoy themselves and not work hard as long as they raise their children, then the meaning of being a parent is simply to enjoy themselves without hardship? That's no different than running a pig farm!
Being a parent means enjoying the unparalleled joy of raising children, and then realizing one's own life's value by taking on the responsibility of continuing the family line and gaining a sense of accomplishment. Of course, this process will be very hard, as it is normal for everyone in the world to experience hardship. Life's difficulties are similar. The children of children… are all the same.
A child's growth has nothing to do with their parents' hardship. Life is inherently hard, and no identity changes that. Of course, we must be grateful for our parents' upbringing and provide them with living conditions to the extent that we can. When we can't do anything, as long as we know our parents' upbringing, we don't need to doubt the meaning of our growth. Instead, we should understand the responsibility we bear and work hard to fulfill it.
What we really need to think about is why our parents are still working hard, and why we are unable to change that. This is the question we must seriously consider. What is the greatest lesson you learned from your parents' teachings and examples? How will you raise your children? Why do you raise children? What is the meaning of your child's growth? What do you most hope your child will be like after they grow up? Is it simply that you don't want them to be as hard-working as you are?
If our thinking is so utilitarian, then our growth has no meaning, it's just that we're not working hard. The meaning of our growth is to study hard and use knowledge to change the world and create a happy life, and to make a contribution to the progress of humanity. Of course, this includes being filial and grateful to our parents, but this is only the endpoint of our growth. The front end is having the ability to create a happy life and realize one's own value, and then the back end is filial piety and gratitude to our parents.
The meaning of our growth is to contribute to the country and benefit the people, and our parents are just a small part of this. Those who dedicate their entire lives to revolutionary work, or those revolutionary soldiers who guard the home and country and rarely see their families, don't they have meaning? If a person's thinking is so narrow, and only concerned about the hardship their children will face after growing up, then it is truly meaningless.
I think this is also what parents don't want to see, because raising children is a natural thing, and hard work is normal. The meaning of our growth is for our children to see that we have a good future, and to know that we care about them, and to be able to create a happy family life for our grandchildren to enjoy.
They will be happy and content, and you don't need to doubt the meaning of our growth. Otherwise, they will be old but never grow up. #emotional_life#
