Life Insights ⁽³⁰⁵⁾

Many years ago, when my elder brother and I had just entered the working world, with little experience and scarce social resources, we kept running into walls. My brother quoted a famous line from Kafka to express his inner feeling—"Every difficulty can conquer me." At…

Every year at the year's end, I write an article to bid the year farewell. What theme should this year's year-end article take? I thought it over and chose this title: A Joyful Heart, Beyond Gain and Loss. After experiencing one parting and one bereavement…

For the past month or more, I have spent most of my time in a temple halfway up a mountain. The temple has very few worshippers; on most days not a single pilgrim comes the whole day, and the temple is left untended, so I…

These past two days, my Moments have been flooded with the news that Li Yong, the famous CCTV host, has died of cancer. May Brother Yong rest in peace! A public figure dying of cancer is a collective lesson in cancer prevention for the public;…

This began when I opened my Moments one morning and saw a post from a Buddhist monk among my WeChat friends, which read as follows: "Dawn is always indescribably beautiful. Why can a thing fully reveal its beauty? Because there is enough space. It is…

Over these years, those who have come to me for consultation include not only patients with physical illness but also patients with mental illness, and even patients with various twisted personalities. Some problems I can help them resolve; some I cannot. Because some problems have…

Last night, on the Moments of my work WeChat, I launched a donation drive for an uncle whose whole family of three had cancer. Everyone responded enthusiastically; as of now, more than 20,000 yuan in charitable donations has been raised. Additionally, some friends hope to…

I have written many articles over time. Although their quality is nothing to boast about, they have nevertheless accumulated some readers. Among these readers, some wish to befriend me, while others wish to study medicine—or something else—under me. I have refused many of these requests.

Since high school, loneliness has been the main theme of my life. I write furiously in solitude, I bury myself in books in solitude, I quietly observe the world in solitude, I think silently in solitude—I have grown accustomed to living in solitude. Perhaps this…

On September 12, I traveled from Beijing to Shaoxing to pay respects at the grave of a patient who was also my closest friend. He passed away in the United States at the end of last year. By the time I reached Xinchang, Shaoxing, it…