Finally, longevity in Su’s blessing reaches beyond duration to durability—of trust, civility, and care. Confucian kinship ethics and Buddhist compassion both suggest that time is a field where virtue must be tended; endurance dignifies affection. To live long, in this sense, is to keep faith long: with family afar, with friends estranged by circumstance, with communities dispersed. So the poem closes not in resignation but in resolve: let time be generous, and while it turns, let us keep looking up together. [...]
