en_tn_condensed/ecc/12/01.md

# call to mind

This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "remember" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])

# before the days of difficulty come

Future time is spoken of as if the "days are coming" Alternate translation: "before you experience difficult times" or "before bad things happen to you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# before the years arrive when you say, "I have no pleasure in them"

Future time is spoken of as if "years arrive" Alternate translation: "before you become old when you say, 'I no longer enjoy being alive'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])