Parents go to heaven, children come from heaven

Author: Wang Yu
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
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1. Parents gradually go to heaven
As everyone knows, in the distant center of the universe, there is an angelic kingdom called heaven. It is said that good people go to heaven after death and become angels, living a happy and joyful life thereafter. Life is short, and things are unpredictable. Everyone has an old day, and children understand that parents cannot stay with them forever. Eventually, parents will also go to heaven.
Since ancient times, parents have never hesitated to sacrifice for their children, regardless of cost or reward. The kindness they have shown their children is as vast as the sky and as deep as the earth, and it is something that children can never repay in a lifetime. No wonder the ancients said, "Only when you raise a child do you understand the parents' love."
As parents grow older day by day, children grow up day by day. How pity the hearts of parents! Today, the situation is: parents always think too much about their children, while children do very little for their parents! As a result, the traditional concept of "filial piety" has changed, with the roles of parents and children reversed: children, consciously or unconsciously, become a heavy burden on their parents.
In the past, under the promotion of "moral education," filial piety was highly valued, and many filial sons and daughters emerged. But now, the practice of filial piety has been turned upside down, leading to the situation where the parents are "thin" and the children are "fat." Filial piety has abandoned self-reliance and independence, giving rise to "giant infants," which affects the healthy growth of the next generation and is even more detrimental to the elderly's peaceful retirement.
One often sighs at the cruelty of time, cruel to the point of being almost ruthless. It has taken away all of parents' youth, exchanging it for their children's growth. The passage of time has bleached their black hair and left deep marks on their foreheads. Although it has left the inherent courage and strength of their parents, one cannot deny that parents have grown old.
The world is vast, but nothing compares to the greatness of parents' love. The heart and effort parents have put into their children, the hardships they have endured—none of it can be expressed in words. And how can children fail to practice filial piety? "Often come home to visit, even if it's just helping mom wash chopsticks and dishes, or helping dad rub his back and massage his waist. The elderly don't expect children to make great contributions to the family; they just want peace and security!" This is the true reflection of the love of parents all over the world.
If parents' love is compared to a straight, unchanging line, then in childhood, we grew up under such love, with parents as our strongest pillars. Then, as we grew older, we realized that parents were not as perfect as we had imagined. Their thoughts and interests were far different from ours, and there were things they couldn't do. Thus, a generation gap emerged, and we chose to distance ourselves. As we grew older and matured, we experienced the hardships and setbacks of life and discovered that the harbor of parents was always quiet and warm. So, we drew closer.
However, the trials of life have not stopped. They have made us more mature, gradually more steady, or even made us parents ourselves. Only then do we understand the joy and difficulty of being a parent. We once again cling to our parents like children.
For the sake of their children, parents' sorrows are like a gentle stream formed by drops of blood and tears, quietly flowing with love and grief. Those passing years are like streetlights in the distance when looking back, standing tall behind us, shining brightly and clearly,.