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If I have an opportunity to meet a great person whom I admire and hold talks with her, the person I want to interview is 杏林子, a famous Taiwanese writer. As we all know, she had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for a long time, but she was not pessimistic at all, instead, she tried to deal with the pain and torture in an optimistic attitude and never gave way to being defeated by her incurable disease. Furthermore, she continued to write many books in which using herself as an example to encourage her readers to overcome obstacles in lives. When I meet her in person, a big and sincere embrace would transcend everything else to express my admiration and respect, then some questions about her positive attitude toward life follow. I am very curious about her first reaction as soon as knowing the disease, because as far as I knew, most of people are informed having vital disease, they would deny the fact and than feeling miserable and depressed and then rejecting being remedied. The process of accepting their own disease is quite long and fatigued not only to the patient himself but people around him/her as well. Therefore, I wonder whether so optimistic a woman like her would experience those painful stages as well. What’s more, we all know she had a strong passion about the world, and she loved her sibling, loved disabled children, loved the nature landscape, she loved everything between the vault of heaven and land we are standing on, no matter the world is perfect or not. I want to know how did a person in such inconvenient physical condition keep the enthusiastic of looking on the bright side of the imperfect world, and wrote so many article to sing the praises of prosperous life. Because even healthy people would inevitably have some cloudy and wicked thought when we are in adversity, but she, the optimistic and warm writer, seldom reveals the dark side and always encourages people to endeavour and not to leave any regret at the moment we living in. To mt suprise, she never felt pity about herself and still be very broad-minded, but I wonder did she have any moment thinking of giving up the painful life would be a better choice or she was born so perfect in dealing with emotion? This lovely writer full of vitality died in February 2003. Finally, she could get rid of all her suffer from pain and reach a happy world, but on the other hand, I speculate that compared with living in heaving without pain and misery, maybe the brave writer loved the world with pain and comfort, with harm and cure more. Perhaps she would regards living with both adversity and prosperity was really “experience the life” to her. To my opinion, she really "live" in the world once and leave the world too much precious treasure, such as her books, her encouragement, her love and blessing to every creature and, most important, her experience; she went through the most difficult adversity and sublimate her mind nobler enough to fight against any predicament. Her fortiitude encourages a lot of people in difficulty as well, and create more and more 杏林子 like her, so even she passed away, her positive attitude live in the world forever and appear when each of us try to break through our obstacle.

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