The Importance Of Impermanence Of Life

“Impermanence of life” When I was small, I have always heard some old sayings in my home country, which were “It is the unforeseen that always happens”, and “life is impermanent, live in the moment”. These sayings were usually told by the elderly. Whenever they spoke these old sayings, it seemed there was a sense of depression, and there was a sense of sorrow that you can’t describe by words. Although only from the surface of the words meanings, I definitely understand what those old sayings mean, I was so young and so ignorant, I didn’t experience as much as the elderly, I didn’t understand why there was full of sigh., I didn’t know why whenever they said the old saying, they could be so sad, like there were a thousand of stories behind. Until I experienced and I witnessed something in my childhood, I finally truly understand why there were full of sorrow when they spoke those out. And those experiences really changed my attitude towards life, to know the importance of cherishing everything.

They always told me about the story before they moved to Hong Kong from Vietnam. The old man was a former soldier of Vietnam, and they used a lot of methods in order to escape to Hong Kong, and finally they did as they went through all kind of hardships. When they settled in Hong Kong, the old man wanted his child to have a better life, so he spent all of his money to send his son to the United States, leaving themselves alone. So they cared about me greatly and treated me as their son. So I also treated them as another mom and dad. I was so happy and feeling blissful to have them in my childhood. Until now, I am still missing