In fact, it is a joke, this phrase comes from "life is not only in front of you, there are poems and distant fields", from the song "life is not only in front of you" written by Gao Xiaosong and sung by Xu Wei. As the song became a hit, the phrase spread online and was wildly adapted by netizens.

Expanded:

"Life is more than what's in front of you"

Composed by Gao Xiaosong Performed by Xu Wei

Mom sits in front of the door humming Flowers and Teenagers

Though it's been a long time since then, she remembers the tears

Those dark times.

At the parting door, my mom looked at me and said

There's more to life than what's right in front of you, there's poetry and faraway fields

You came to this world with your bare hands, and you did everything you could to find the sea

She sat across from me, bowed her head and said goodbye

After so many years, I remember she was in tears.

Those times of laughter, those vows and dreams

On the street where we parted ways, she hugged me and said

Life is more than what you see in front of you, there are also poems and fields far away

You came to this world with your bare hands, and you did everything you could to find the sea

I am walking away alone, with a young man at my knees

The young man is growing up. Growing day by day, one day to leave home

Watch his back grow, watch him persist and look back

I know that one day I will smile and say to him

Life is more than just what is in front of you, there are also poems and fields far away

You came to this world with your bare fists, and you defied all odds in order to find that sea

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