Question:“On what you owe your parents”
On what you owe your parents
Filial duty is not repayment. Try to repay what you were given and you are in debt for life, and debt is not love but weight. Filial duty is the count of hours spent beside them while they are still here.
Do not put off a grand gift. Set a small hour instead: one call on the same day each week, one meal a month. Give them something they can count. Parents count not the price but the times.
When the oxen were late, Cleobis and Biton pulled their mother’s cart to the temple of Hera with their own bodies. Herodotus placed the two of them second among the most blessed of all.