Excerpting a sysop's post from a forum I am active in on SERI. The conclusion is obvious and cliché. But no matter how many times I encounter it, the echo inside my heart refuses to fade. That is also true.. -> (Sysop: I came across this post while searching online. It's short, but moving; I'm sharing it here.)
A while ago, an unfamiliar name to us — "Wei Zian" — climbed up the real-time search rankings and drew everyone's attention. | ||||
She was about to finalize a major project with the Chinese government and with Norway. She would hear her just-past-one-year-old son say something like "Mama" and shed tears of happiness. She would listen to her parents, who had raised their only daughter to be a professor at a top university, proudly talk about their successful daughter with shoulders back, and she would smile. At that moment, she was given a terminal diagnosis of advanced cancer. Because the cancer had spread throughout her body, she endured pain as though her bones were melting. Within that pain, instead of despairing or blaming God, she began writing down on her blog "the things I only came to know at the end of life." "Even if fate takes everything from me, there is one thing it can never take — the 'right to choose.' I will exercise my last right to choose my own life until the final moment. Never give up. We have a clear reason why we must live today." Her stories logged over 100,000 views per post, spread through the internet at great speed, and moved mainland China to tears. "When you have time, spend a little more of it with your children; take the money for a nice car and use it to visit your mother once more, and buy her a pair of shoes." "I learned that holding the hand of someone beside you one more time is worth so much more than running at full speed to accomplish something." "Love is not something you do later. You do it now. In this very moment, while you are alive." Standing at the end of life, Wei Zian told us what she had come to know — that what is most precious to us is positivity and hope in facing life, a calling toward our own work, love for family, our health, and that life is beautiful simply because we are alive — and then she left. In leaving behind "A Reason to Live Today," she said that if through her writing even one person could change, if she could become someone's hope, she would gladly accept having work to do to the very end. Now, her sincerity is reaching Korean readers, too: "A Reason to Live Today" hit the bestseller list right after publication and is steadily holding its place. The many readers who have read the book say with one voice: "Just as Wei Zian said, I shouldn't put off saying 'I love you' or 'thank you' to the people I love. I should say it right now, in this very moment while I am alive." Source: bit.ly/LKHMsU |
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Wei Zian — A Reason to Live Today
This English version was translated by Claude.
