The youngest son of the well-known writer Li Yiyun died at the age of 19, and the eldest son committed suicide 7 years agoLife is like a roller coaster, sometimes it is so high that you feel like you can touch the sky, and sometimes it is so low that you feel like you have fallen to the bottom.
Speaking of which, I have to mention the talented writer Li Yiyun in the United States. Her life experience is like a drama full of highs and lows, which is distressing to watch.
On February 21, there was a sad news: Li Yiyun's youngest son was hit by a train in Princeton and unfortunately died.
And just seven years ago, in 2017, her eldest son chose to commit suicide. In just seven years, Li Yiyun lost his two sons, and the pain of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person is really unbearable.
The youngest son, James Lee, was hit by a Princeton train at the intersection of College Road on Feb. 16. As soon as the news came out, everyone was shocked, and they all sighed that the world was so cruel to Li Yiyun.
James Lee is only 19 years old this year, and he was originally a young man full of vitality and hope. He attended Princeton High School and is a freshman at Princeton University in the class of 2027.
He has a special interest in linguistics, enjoys playing computer games, and is always keen to learn something new. However, it is really unacceptable that such a fresh life is gone.
As for Li Yiyun, as the director of the creative writing program at Princeton University, the pain in her heart can be imagined when she learns that her son has suffered a misfortune outside the school where she works.
The school also took the matter very seriously, expressed its condolences to Mr. and Mrs. Lee, and held a mourning service the day after James Lee's death to bring students together to bid farewell to the young man.
Li Yiyun is an excellent writer, her works have touched the hearts of countless people, but fate is so unfair to her. She has experienced too many ups and downs and losses in her life, which is really distressing.
Speaking of Li Yiyun, she is a legend. She was born in Beijing in 1972 into a family of intellectuals, her father was a nuclear physicist, and her mother was a primary school Chinese teacher. Growing up in such a family environment, Li Yiyun has had excellent grades since he was a child and has attracted much attention.
In 1996, after graduating from the School of Life Sciences of Peking University, she went to the United States to study for a doctorate in immunology. However, she felt that the trajectory of her life as a scientist was endless, so she resolutely left scientific research and tried to write in English.
She wrote a collection of short stories such as "A Thousand Years of Cultivation and Sleeping Together", which have been loved by the majority of readers. In 2010, she was selected by The New Yorker as one of the 20 most outstanding young people under the age of 40. It can be seen that her talent and strength should not be underestimated.
But there are always times in life when things don't go your way. Just when Li Yiyun's career was in full swing, she suffered from depression and had suicidal tendencies many times.
During that time, she struggled with depression every day and tried to find the courage to live. Fortunately, in the end, she overcame the disease and completed her self-transformation.
But fate didn't seem to want to let her go. In September 2017, when Li Yiyun was working on "Should I Go", her eldest son, who was only 16 years old, chose to commit suicide.
This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Li Yiyun, and she couldn't figure out why her son would embark on this path.
What made her even more heartbroken was that her father also fell ill and died soon after. Looking at his seriously ill father in the hospital, Li Yiyun hesitated for a long time whether to tell him the news of his grandson's suicide.
In the end, she chose not to say it, because she felt that her father had already suffered too much pain and blows. Regarding the death of his father, Li Yiyun also has a lot of regrets and incomprehension.
She said that neither she nor her father liked to express their feelings, and until her father's death, she didn't know why her father's shoulders were high and low, and why he always liked to sing "Spring in the North".
After losing two close relatives one after another, Li Yiyun fell into deep grief. She began writing When Reason Is No More, a written story of mothers and sons and suicide.
In the book, she talks to her deceased son, using words to teach readers how to accept death. She wrote that on the day her eldest son died, she read Don Quixote, but when she read it later, she always felt that something was missing. In her letters, she asked her eldest son: If I am really good enough, why can't I keep you?
Li Yiyun's words have touched the hearts of countless people, but the world is too cruel to her. She has been through so much pain and loss, but she is still strong in the face of life. In her own way, she told us: no matter how hard life is, we must go on bravely.
May Li Yiyun find inner peace and tranquility in the days to come, and continue to use her words to ** more people's hearts.