Text: Yang Shujian
Sometimes the world looks gray, not as colorful as in your dreams, but even so, there must be some light waiting for you, even if it is only a small moment, it is worth your efforts to live. Whenever I think of this sentence, I am always moved by the help of the staff of the Yueyang City Education Association, and they are also them, with love, to build a little glimmer of light in my darkness.
At the beginning of September 2023, the heat of early autumn has not completely subsided, and I once again felt the warmth sent by the staff of the Yueyang City Education Association. Over the years, with the care and encouragement of the staff of the county and city education associations, I have survived five years smoothly. This year, my child is in the third year of high school in Huarong No. 1 Middle School, looking at the stacks of college entrance examination re-Xi materials that my son left at home, I feel a little more emotional, and the experience and mood of these years are like swimming around the edge of the cliff.
I am a teacher at Huarong County Changgong Experimental School, and I was diagnosed with breast cancer in Xiangya Hospital affiliated to Central South University in 2018. The family, which was not well off before the **, is even worse. At this time, I was divorced due to the disagreement between husband and wife, I lived alone with my children, and I was overwhelmed by the high ** cost and follow-up ** expenses, and the confusion and gloom in the eyes of my family pierced my heart, so that I still couldn't help but feel sad from my heart, and even had the intention of giving up ** for a while. At this time, the staff of the ** meeting heard about my situation and told me that this disease is not incurable, I can work and Xi like a normal person, and gave me many successful cases of fighting cancer. Encourage me to Xi study hard, work hard, and develop my interests and hobbies. Let me apply for relief to the Education Association, after I submitted the information and the staff visited, I became the donation object of the Education Association, the warmth given by the Association allowed me to spend the darkest time in my life, and also rekindled my hope for life, with the help of the staff of the Association, I accepted the doctor's advice and continued. Their help is like a glimmer of light, shining into the cracks in my life, lighting up my world, making me kindle hope and feel the warmth of the world.
Hope and frustration go back and forth, fate is like an invisible weight, constantly increasing on the hope side, as the condition stabilizes and improves, I begin to re-examine the disease. Perhaps, this illness brought me not only despair, but also a change in my life status and concept of life. In the past five years, with a grateful heart and the belief that "even if I have been drenched in the rain, I have to hold an umbrella for others", and I have inherited the care and kindness of the staff of the ** club.
I participated in the "Little Red Flower" Volunteer Public Welfare Club of the Provincial Cancer Hospital, and encouraged cancer patients to maintain a positive and sunny attitude with my own experience, telling them that cancer is not terrible, but that they do not have the courage to face and fight. As a volunteer at the "Green Apple" Children's Psychological Counseling Center organized by Ms. Ruan Mei, she helped organize the "whispering mailbox" and listened to the whispers in the hearts of teenagers. I worked hard to learn Xi photography, recorded my life with my camera, joined the Huarong County Photographers Association, and joined the Yueyang Photographers Association and the Hunan Art Photography Association this year. This year, the school activities I photographed were twice on the provincial newspaper and once on the official homepage of the Hunan Provincial Department of Education, and my photographic works have won many awards in the photography activities organized by the city and county.
Life is beautiful, but there are always difficult times in life, sometimes, the best thing you can do is to laugh out loud about your life, and no matter how much of the most desperate darkness you experience, there is always love shining into the cracks of life like a glimmer of light, so that you can move forward bravely without hesitation.
The author is Yang Shujian, Huarong County Changgong Experimental School).