Shi Tie: People have a bad habit – remembering bad luck but forgetting good fortune.

What we call 'fate' is that this 'human drama' needs all sorts of characters; you can only be one of them, and you cannot change it.

Playwrights know that to make a play attractive, there must be conflict, such as between characters.

The prerequisite for conflict and conflict is the personality and circumstances of the characters, which may be vastly different.

God knows this, so 'human drama' is so splendid.

When writing a script, you often get confused and say, 'How could this happen to me!' But everyone has times when 'things turn out for the best.' We just don't notice it.

But if it's not 'how could this happen' and 'how could it be so lucky,' do I even exist?

I am who I am. I am a limitation.

For example, I'm going to France to watch the World Cup. Usually, you fly. But if the plane suddenly malfunctions after taking off – if the engine or landing gear fails – I can't jump on another plane. I have to accept fate and see if there's a plane crash in the drama. If there is, let others watch the football.

In the late 1980s, Shi Tie lived in the 26th room of the Yonghe Palace,

You can think of your body as an airplane. If your legs (landing gear) and two kidneys (engines) fail simultaneously, that's a serious malfunction. The captain will surely step forward to deal with it. We should leave some legacy.

When I was lying in the 'dialysis room' bed, watching the blood flowing out of my body into the 'dialysis device' and then back in, I often heard the sound of planes flying in the sky, guessing how God arranged this scene in the script.

Sometimes I imagine my epitaph. I don't like this world so much, I just want, if there is a chance, to choose it myself. 'I come and go lightly, just as I came lightly.'

I lightly depart, just as I lightly came, sweeping away all dust and noise,

However, if you are going on a journey, there will always be rewards: gaining experience in foreign lands, mountains and rivers shaping your character, rapids and dangerous currents testing your will. The experience of illness is step by step to understand how to satisfy yourself.

If you have a fever, you realize how refreshing it is not to have a fever. If you have a cough, you understand how peaceful it is not to have a cough. When I first sat in a wheelchair, I kept thinking, 'If I can't stand up and walk, this is not what a person should be like.' So I felt as if the world was collapsing. When I developed bedsores and could only lie on my side for days, I realized that sitting upright is actually a bright day,

Later, I developed 'renal failure,' often in a daze, I missed the past, and finally realized that in every moment we are lucky, because any disaster may have a 'more' added before it,

When I sat in a wheelchair that year, the doctors were worried that my optic nerve would also fail, so they took me to the ophthalmology clinic for checkups from time to time, and didn't make a fuss. Afterwards, they told me I had narrowly escaped a dangerous situation,

However, when someone tells you to go to the Buddhist temple to burn incense and pray for good luck, you might also hesitate. Not because you don't want to go to the temple (nor because you suddenly want to stand up and walk), Buddhism is profound and vast, but I don't think asking for a favorable arrangement is respect for Buddhism,

Just go to seek wisdom to dispel obsession. Once you turn away from greed and delusion,

This is a travel experience, of course, there are risks, but traveling on the river is safe? The difference is that you can prepare for river travel in advance, and illness is often unavoidable.

If you have a fever, you realize how refreshing it is not to have a fever. If you have a cough, you understand how peaceful it is not to have a cough. When I first sat in a wheelchair, I kept thinking, 'If I can't stand up and walk, this is not what a person should be like.' So I felt as if the world was collapsing. When I developed bedsores and could only lie on my side for days, I realized that sitting upright is actually a bright day,

Later, I developed 'renal failure,' often in a daze, I missed the past, and finally realized that in every moment we are lucky, because any disaster may have a 'more' added before it,

If you have a fever, you realize how refreshing it is not to have a fever. If you have a cough, you understand how peaceful it is not to have a cough. When I first sat in a wheelchair, I kept thinking, 'If I can't stand up and walk, this is not what a person should be like.' So I felt as if the world was collapsing. When I developed bedsores and could only lie on my side for days, I realized that sitting upright is actually a bright day,

Later, I developed 'renal failure,' often in a daze, I missed the past, and finally realized that in every moment we are lucky, because any disaster may have a 'more' added before it,

If you have a fever, you realize how refreshing it is not to have a fever. If you have a cough, you understand how peaceful it is not to have a cough. When I first sat in a wheelchair, I kept thinking, 'If I can't stand up and walk, this is not what a person should be like.' So I felt as if the world was collapsing. When I developed bedsores and could only lie on my side for days, I realized that sitting upright is actually a bright day,