Today it is the first anniversary of my eye operation. This time last year, I was lying on an operation table in a hospital in Wuhan.

I feel this past year has gone by very fast. At times when I thought of the operation, it seemed as if it had happened the day before. It was probably because I was so busy every day that I hardly had time to notice the elapse of days and weeks.

Still when I recall the operation and the post-operation treatment in the hospital, I feel painful. I have some gains from it, though. I think I have learned that whatever might befall us, we should brave it out. Before I suffered this illness, I often complained about life in this school. After the operation I realised that life, which is deceptively simple when we are healthy, is not something to take for granted. We should embrace what comes our way even if it is a challenge we did not expect.

Now I have become better, and wiser as well. I still have to take good care of my eyes, though. I feel worried about them when they ache a bit from time to time.