This sentence was not said by Yu Qiuyu, but it was a dialogue from a novel by Yang Jiang, a modern Chinese cultural critic and essayist," Bathing." The novel was one of Yang Jiang's masterpieces. It was about the difficulties and challenges that a man named Wang Zhibao and his family experienced during the turbulent period of modern Chinese history. This sentence expressed Yang Jiang's deep thoughts and feelings about history and life. She believed that the meaning of life did not lie in what you did in the past, but in whether you could continue to create value and influence society in the future.