How happy it will be hunting rabbits with your dog?

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How happy it will be hunting rabbits with your dog?

"I wish to lead our yellow hound with you once more and go out the east gate of Shangcai to chase after cunning hares—but how could it ever be possible now!"

--- "Records of the Grand Historian", Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, before his execution, said to his son.

「吾與若復牽黃犬,  俱出東門逐狡兔, 豈可得乎？ 」出自《史記·李斯列傳》，是秦朝丞相李斯臨刑前對兒子說的話。

 There are different kinds of happiness,   Everyone would know what happiness was in his memory.....

 If you don't know,  don't worry,  it will come back to you in your worst moment of life.  By then you will know what is happiness.

Important is to know it before it is gone.

Important is to know your happiness and enjoy it..........before it is gone.

Do not hesitate.   Do what you need to do.

I repeat once more here:

Do not hesitate.

明月幾時有?  把酒問青天。 不知天上宮闕，今夕是何年。

我欲乘風歸去，又恐瓊樓玉宇，高處不勝寒，起舞弄清影，何似在人間?

天空闊，心廣大，我尋求。

心中有夢，前路遙遠莫疑遲。

時間空間仍有限，但我心潮澎湃。

希望竟然有，但願明日好，醒覺在人間。

When will the moon be clear and bright?

With a cup of wine. I ask the azure sky.

I wonder in the celestial palaces tonight,

What year it is up there on high?

I long to ride the wind;

Yet I fear that in the jade heavens so fair,

Cold would be too much to bear.

Dancing to the fleeting shadow, I’d find

That life on earth is not a lesser kind.

The sky is vast, my heart is wide—and I am seeking.

With my dreams, though far the road, don’t hesitate.

Time and space have their bounds, yet my spirit surges great.

Hope, after all, is here; may tomorrow be clear,

And I wake again in this human sphere.

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In the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian), Biography of Li Si, just before his execution, Li Si lamented to his son:

"I wish to lead our yellow hound with you once more and go out the east gate of Shangcai to chase after cunning hares—but how could it ever be possible now!"

This took place in the second year of Qin Er Shi (208 BCE). Li Si was falsely accused of treason by Zhao Gao and sentenced to be cut in two at the waist. As he faced death, he turned to his second son, who was to be executed alongside him, and spoke with deep sorrow of the simple life they once led in their hometown of Shangcai—leading a yellow dog and going out the east gate to hunt wild rabbits.