Day 65 ~ Generations

While walking around the park, I passed a couple walking down slowly: a young Asian woman and an old lady helped by a walker. I heard them speak in Chinese and imagined them being mother and daughter. When I completed my first tour around the park, I saw them walking the same street in the opposite direction and concluded that their age difference was bigger, two generations apart in all likelihood. The moment we crossed ways, I granted them a shy look and the young lady gave me a gorgeous smile in return. I quickly looked over the old lady and noticed similar traits on her face. The same beauty, just cured by time. I was touched by the view of the two generations, evolving but also preserving what they had in common. A grandmother sharing a walk in a land far away from her own but using her mother tongue with a granddaughter, who was in her native land but using the language of her ancestor. In light of the new report on rapid climate change and its devastating effects, I wonder if the view of the young woman and her grandma will be possible a hundred years from now.