敬天愛人
On Saigo Takamori's famous philosophy of "Respect the heavens and love the people".
I felt that it does make a whole lot of sense.
If one respects the heavens but does not love the people, he will have a very boring life free of company.
If one does not respect the heavens but does love the people, he will be an irrational but loving person.
If one doesn't respect the heavens and doesn't love people, he will be irrational and lonely.
If one respects the heavens and loves the people, there arises a question - what do you do, when?
Such is life.
Saigo had the same issue. In his last act of rebellion, he put people first, irrationally ignoring his chances.
Maybe reason always has to go first.
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