The second full day I went on a solo trip in Paris. With the suggestions of a brother, I went along with the plan for the day, which is to spend some time in Le Louvre, then walk along Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triophme, and finish the day at the Eiffel Tower. It was a really fun day. I spent about 3 hours in Le Louvre, and I saw a lot of medieval weaponry, the Egyptian artifacts, some statues of the deceased people (kings, queens, nobles, bishops, ..etc), and of course, the Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa painting was actually quite small, and I couldn't get close to the painting. But it was still kind of cool. I heard from a sister that the painting Mona Lisa was done with some kind of technique, so the paint lines are not obvious. And another brother said that Mona Lisa was supposedly pregnant at the time of the painting. Interesting facts.
In Le Louvre, I thought a bit about the statues of the people that once lived (I think these statues were actually tombs). No matter who these people used to be, maybe they were kings, or queens, or knights, or nobles, or bishops, they are no longer here today. All that remains is just some statues we see. I wondered that wherever they are now, if they see us touring about their tombs, what would be on their minds? What they did during their lifetime didn’t matter anymore, what mattered was where they ended up after they died, no matter how splendorous they once lived. For us today, how shall we live our lives then?
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