He has seen a syndrome play out there: people's parents die, and then they sell their farmland, let their family home go to ruin, pull up their stakes and move to Taipei. Because he knows that his hometown needs people like him to come back and work on its behalf, he really feels torn.
看到周圍許多人因為父母去世、農地賣了、老厝荒廢了，從此只能浪跡台北，再想想家鄉正需要自己這樣的人才回去效力，心頭的拉鋸又更劇烈了。