On January 17, a self-narrated story article "Our Genius Son" in Hangzhou Daily's "Listening to Life" was widely forwarded in the WeChat circle of friends.
In this article, the eighty-year-old father, Jin Sexyong, for the first time publicly recounted the tortuous life of his second son, 50-year-old Jin Xiaoyu.
Jin Xiaoyu father and son
Learn about their stories and you'll burst into tears. It's certainly a sad story, but it's also imbued with a tenacious love, a love that can't be destroyed. Only the love of parents for their children will be reciprocated without regard to giving and without saying anything. No matter what happens, never give up.
Happy families are all similar, but unhappy families have their own misfortunes.
In the face of fate, in the face of misfortune, a family is like a drifting boat, chopping waves, sinking and floating together. Luckily, after the storm, it's always sunny. Drifting boats can finally find shelter in the huge harbor.
It's a tearful story. "Hangzhou Man Calls from a Funeral Home: Can You Write About Our Genius Son". It tells that the day Jin Sexyong called the newspaper office was the day his wife Cao Meizao came out of the funeral. It was a funeral attended without children. Jin Sexyong has two sons, the eldest son Jin Xiaotian has been isolated overseas due to the epidemic, and there is also his youngest son who is most at ease - Jin Xiaoyu.
Jin Xiaoyu's father
Even the father did not tell them that his mother had passed away. In a phone call to the newspaper, Jin said, "Can you write my son's story?" My son is a genius, he's in a mental hospital now, and his mom just left today. The moment he sent his wife away, he thought, "When I leave one day, no one will know about our son."
The life of his youngest son, Jin Xiaoyu, who wants to tell the world, is the story of how a person who has been disabled in his left eye since childhood and suffered from manic depression (bipolar disorder) since he grew up struggled with fate.
Jin Xiaoyu was born in 1972 and is exactly 50 years old this year. His life has had three major turns.
The first time was when the family was living in Tianjin, 6-year-old Jin Xiaoyu was mistakenly injured by a needle eye fired by a neighbor's child's toy gun, and his left eye has since gone blind. The damage caused to Jin Xiaoyu by this encounter is permanent and irreversible. I think. This is the foreshadowing of his tortuous fate.
The second time was that Jin Xiaoyu fell ill because of mania and depression, dropped out of high school in the first year of high school, and after dropping out of school, Jin Xiaoyu briefly worked as a bookstore salesman and an exhaust fan factory worker, but all of them messed up. Arguing with customers in bookstores, not being able to make peace with other people in factories, suddenly losing your temper at home, smashing things...
This is just the beginning of Jin Xiaoyu's tortuous life.
During this period, Jin Xiaoyu took the college entrance examination through tuition, and after the results came out, he was only 3 points away from a line. The second choice, the Department of Foreign Languages of Hangzhou University, was withdrawn from the school and transferred to Shuren University. But after a year of studying, I dropped out of school because of illness.
Later, through two years of self-study, he obtained a self-examination diploma from the English Department of Zhejiang University. However, because of the onset of the disease, Jin Xiaoyu chose to live lightly twice. But after all the attempts, he was diagnosed with manic depression and mental illness, and the family's life completely changed direction.
After determining that their son was ill, Jin Shengyong and his wife thought that nothing mattered, as long as their son could live. This is not so much a bottom-line requirement for life as a painful prayer from the heart of a pair of parents.
A group photo of Jin Xiaoyu with his father when he was a teenager
The third time was when Jin Xiaoyu was 38 years old and got a chance to translate literary works, thus blooming with the brilliance of life.
Jin Xiaoyu did not give up the fight against the disease, he did not waste his talent. Constantly learning and self-improvement. Learn English, German, Japanese. The first book Kim translated was The Ship Fever by American writer Andrea Barrett, and since then he has translated 22 books in a decade at the rate of two books per year. The most recent translation is the Collection of Letters by the German writer Benjamin.
Works translated by Jin Xiaoyu
It is really unfortunate that Jin Xiaoyu was injured by mistake when he was young, so parents must take good care of their children and educate their children. Protect yourself and don't hurt others. Later, I suffered from manic depression, which is indeed regrettable.
Fate is always cloudy and unpredictable. But no matter what the circumstances, Jin Xiaoyu's parents have never given up on him, and have been silently supporting him behind his back. And Jin Xiaoyu, did not give up on himself, although he endured mental illness but still insisted on self-study, and finally the sword was sheathed, achieved self-achievement, and won the recognition of society.
What touched us was not only Jin Xiaoyu's indomitable spirit, but also the spirit of daring to fight against fate. Even more touched by his ordinary parents, busy for their children's lives, no complaints and no regrets, is this not the epitome of our thousands of parents? #Jin Xiaoyu ##北京病例辗转28地打工: Looking for a son for 2 and a half years ##