The problems that stemmed out of the declines of birth rates, of how culture is, lost slowly, translated…
The wooden plates of our ancestors upstairs, carried the spirits of those who came before my generations, since I could remember, from my grandparents to my parents, every morning and evening, there would be the offerings of a stick of incense. When there were the doubts of life, the adults would be lost in thought, as the stick of incense starts to burn up, leaving the smokes that rise upward. But I'd only felt secretly excited, that of the days of the year, there would be the offerings of the delicious foods , and made, and, as the adults told us the children, to call out the ancestors whose names were written on the wooden plates back to have the foods, after the offerings, we get the extra dishes to eat.
Later, my parents also, "moved in" to the plates too, and I'm now, the one, standing in the smoke that rose upward, and that was when I'd finally understood, what our older generations were thinking of, "Ancestors, mom, dad, do bless the families to be safe and healthy." It seemed, that by asking the ancestors for the blessings, we got that promised blessing then, this became, the most faithful asking of blessings for our own, loved ones.
And now, there's just, two aging elderly who'd, kept guard over this shrine in my home, and we'd, prayed daily, that our children who are all married away, to be safe with their own families, to be healthy.
Recently, in the offerings I'd made, there's that, extra discussion, and appointment too, when eventually my husband and I made it into the plates ourselves, then, there would be no one here, to offer anymore, and, I'd told our daughter, to place the plates in the temples, so we can, stay alongside Buddha then.
This would be the problem of declined birth rate of modern day world, and I'm certain, that all the ancestors would understand, and surely, that the promise of blessings would keep getting passed, to our children, and down the line as well.
And so, this is, the problems of the declines in birth rate, how as we age, and we won't have anybody to offer the items to us anymore, but that's, based off of the beliefs of how our souls would, stay around our families after we're, already gone, but this isn't actually, true, but it gives us that safe place to feel secure in, that's the purpose of, faith, and religions.
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