I am grateful that I work and learn on the ancestral and unceded lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations in Burnaby and on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in Port Moody
REVIEW
2025-06-30
I feel a little urgent to write articles to share my life experiences and feelings with you. The main reason is that my wife's sudden death made me realize that time can stop suddenly and there is no way to retain it. If I don't say something today, when will I say it?
I write whatever I think of, which is an essay, but my sharing is not a collection of random thoughts. I share useful and readable things and ideas, and readable means that they can "move" or "touch" people. In English, it is moving, and in Cantonese, it is "郁動 (Yuk Dong)", which means moving or changing from the original state.
The purpose of A Rather Different World is community education. I retired as a social worker, and my values always have the indicator of "usefulness". The content of the article revolves around life and family, and the scope focuses on the community. The purpose is to strengthen readers' knowledge and understanding of the special needs community, and to share insights in the ups and downs of life for reference.
People respond to things that impact them. Impact brings new experiences, and the same is true for responses. The more impacts there are, the more people experience them, the more they keep their experiences in their hearts, and accumulate experience for future use.
After seven months of experimentation, my current approach is to reprint one article from Lun's World every week, and publish them in chronological order. The other two are decided based on the experiences and inspirations when writing, including rewriting articles from other columns. Except for Lun's World itself, which has been published as a book, I have no idea how to deal with other articles in the future.
The first three months were an adaptation period. When I picked up the pen again, I was more excited, my thoughts were fluctuating, and I felt that I could write an article every day, but at the same time, I felt "brainburning" (brain power was exhausted, and I was suddenly tired) and confused, and it was even more difficult to retain short-term memory.
Knowing that I was a little anxious to write articles, I had to control my behavior so that sharing would not become a pressure. Therefore, I only published three articles a week at most, and published two articles when I was tired, to avoid over-using my brain. After adapting, the "brainburning" situation stopped.
After writing three articles a week, my life has a focus and rhythm. After my wife left, I finally settled down.