Memories are a gift that lasts a lifetime.

Memories are everything! This is a profound statement that I can relate to, and if parents can give their children a great gift, I would recommend memories, which I strongly believe are better than accomplishments.

People will eventually grow old, but in the seventies and eighties, the only thing left will be the long years of accumulated memories, some of which are their own, some of which are shared with their children, and if they do not go to some of the worthwhile things to be hidden in a book of memories, they will not be able to find them in the future.

I like the Zen saying by Zen Master Nissho: "If this minute is good, this minute will not be bad, because it is the same minute, which means that if you do different things in the same minute, the answer will be totally different! A person who watches the stars at this moment is very different from a person who watches TV at the same moment, and a person who watches a show at this hour is very different from a person who argues with his family at this hour. Who's got a memory of time? I hope it's you. What should be the memory? I hope it's not tests, scores, grades, or being yelled at.

One of the walls in my friend's house is like a time tunnel, full of photo albums. I casually pulled out one and found that it had the year, month, place and the person in the photo, and it had been compiled every year since he was born as a permanent memory; I asked him what he was keeping it for. I asked him what he was doing with them, and he said that he was leaving behind the good memories and giving them to his children so that they could be passed on from generation to generation. So he is collecting memories.

Leaving my friend's house I was deeply touched. In an era that emphasizes star schools, first aspirations, and success, there is a father who leaves a mark for a humble memory. He understands early on that his children's accomplishments will not be his own in the end, but the memories are, and he will imprint them deeply, and these memories are all "played out" together by parent and child. The two things are turning over in his mind and it's hard to choose between them.

He took his kids abroad at least once a year, and on every holiday, the whole family went around Taiwan and took stacks of photos, which I jokingly call the spiritual wealth of a lifetime. I was inspired and want to accumulate my children's spiritual wealth. A few days ago, we enjoyed the sycamore flowers together. Tonight, it's cooler and we went to watch the fireflies together. Tomorrow, we have a date to ride alone in the cool wind.

Yes, memories are important, they are an everlasting treasure of the mind, perhaps unspeakable, but real, just as a reporter once asked me how to write, I told him to have a playful childhood, which is true, many of my works seem to be extracting nutrients accumulated in childhood, without a playful childhood, I do not know what is hidden in the shop of memories. There is a passage in the book Drunken Ancient Hall Sword Scrolls written by Luk Hang of the Ming Dynasty, in which he divides people into many kinds, one of which is a higher kind of person. He said that a higher kind of person plays with the world, which means to play with the world, and after years of regurgitation, I really understand that a person who plays with the world is in fact a higher kind of person.

In fact, people good ordinary, more than 99 percent of the people can not be a hundred years of life, stay famous for ages, we have only a short life of years, some noteworthy memories left to the old slowly chewed. Memories are really important, play the more real more flavor.

Author-You Qiangui