Author Lung Ying-tai, in her new book Watching Him Go, offers a poignant description of this sense of loss as the children spread their wings and take flight: "He [eldest son Hua-an] is 21 now, in college. He happens to attend the university where I teach.
作家龍應台在新書《目送》中，對這種孩子振翅欲飛的失落感有著深刻的描繪：「現在他（長子華安）21 歲，上的大學，正好是我教課的大學。