Dear Bamboo Wood Jane: Hello! This is the most affectionate letter I have ever written to myself.
Having passed the age of knowing my destiny, have I fulfilled the ideals of my youth? Are you happy? Is the body of the soul and desire reconciled? Still as tangled as before?
Today, it seems that some ideals have been realized, and nothing has been realized.
I have read many books and understood many truths, but I still have not lived my own life well.
It's time to rethink how to live the rest of my life.
I have long gone when I was prosperous and fleshy, and now what I have to do is to strengthen my physical and mental cultivation and prepare my life food for the time of old age.
First, my parents are getting older, their bodies are getting older, and their steps are more and more faltering, thank you for the fact that they are all alive, so that I still have the possibility of filial piety, talk to them more, cook more for them, care more about their body and mind, and repair their virtues in filial piety.
Second, the son just got married this year and completed a major event in the life of a parent. Now the two children do not want children, we still have a period of comfortable time, do not go against their own hearts, try to do what they like, when the children need, we will go all out to give our love.
Third, my wife and children have struggled with me for so many years, and the run-in love that has experienced time has long become family affection, cherish the lovers around me, because only she may accompany me to old age.
Fourth, prepare food for the time of aging in the future.
Keep exercising to make your body healthier. Strive to live well and walk steadily. They are not guilty of their own sins, their children are not burdened, they save medical expenses, and they are harmonious with the whole society.
Keep reading and nourish your soul. Constantly practicing, enriching one's soul, so that one can face the lonely time of old age. Strive for the reconciliation of your soul and body, and live without entanglement.
I also have to try new things, such as I am learning to write, learning to sing, and I hope that when I am old, I have something to do, so as not to be lonely when I am old. Life is not bitter and short, Mo Dao Sang Yu is late, for Xia Shang is full of heaven!
I hope that you will continue to work hard, keep learning, keep making progress, and become the best version of yourself.
I wish you all the best!
The Green Bamboo Wood Book was written on the seventh day of the first month of the winter month of the Year of the Ugly Year.