If you knew your eyes could only last ten years, how would you face your life? Wu Keyan, a post-90s writer in Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, was diagnosed with a visual impairment when he was 13 years old, and doctors predicted that his eyes would be blind before the age of 32. But he didn't give up, and in the limited time, he found something he loved and looked at it together.
After more than a decade of eye disease in childhood, he will become blind
Wu Keyan is the first member of the Post-90s Chinese Writers Association in Fujian Province, and has a special love for writing, and has created and published more than 1.5 million words so far.
At the age of 13, Wu Keyan had fantasized about becoming a calligrapher and painter, but the sudden eye disease made his good hope a luxury.
A novel changed his life and he aspired to literary creation ever since
Blindness could be lost at any time, and this precognited result was like a dark cloud that lingered in Wu Keyan's mind. Just when he seemed confused, a novel opened up a colorful world for him.
Man can be overthrown, but not defeated. Although his world is gradually shrouded in darkness, the ideas conveyed by Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" have completely changed Wu Keyan's thinking, allowing the flower-season teenager to find a window to reopen the world.
Since then, Wu Keyan seems to be racing against time, reading more wildly, and sucking the nutrition of literature like a hunger. He reads ten books a day, and the amount of reading every day is more than tens of thousands of words.
In 2009, Wu Keyan was admitted to changchun university's special education college, specializing in traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and massage. Wu Keyan still insists on writing poetry and short stories. Just before graduating, Wu Keyan had the idea of writing a long novel, and this idea became more and more intense.
Wu Keyan
In my final year, I felt a particularly strong sense of crisis. I think once I graduated and I went for a massage, it would be hard to write anymore. Because of the blind massage parlor, everyone lives together and feels that there is no private space. So I think this year is my last chance, and I'm desperate to write what I want to write.
With the help of the Fujian Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation, Wu Keyan published his first novel
For the next year, Wu Keyan immersed himself in the creation of this novel "Week Eight", which reflects the defense of Chinese medicine. However, whether he reads or writes a book, he can only rely on his ears to listen, although long-term exercise makes him listen to the book at a speed of more than 600 words per minute, but when writing a book, it is several times or even more than ten times more time and energy than ordinary people.
At the end of "Week Eight", the last bit of light in Katsuhiko's eyes was exhausted, and he became truly blind.
With the help of the Fujian Disabled Persons' Federation, in 2014, Wu Keyan's novel "Week Eight" was published and distributed. In the selection of the 8th Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Award in Zhangzhou, "Week Eight" stood out from the 193 literary and artistic works that participated in the competition and won the first prize.
Soon, Ke Yan's short story collection "Octave Space", the poetry collection "Blood River Collection", the long novel "Cha Sheng", and the short story collection "Little Dream" were launched one after another.
Wu Keyan said that the publication of these books has been praised, supported and encouraged by many readers. But many times he did not dare to admit that he was a writer, but he began to admit that he was a writer. He didn't have to go for a blind massage, he could engage in literature, which was the life he wanted to live.
Break through the obstacles to find your own life value
Nowadays, reading and writing have become the most important parts of Wu Keyan's life, even if the creation of screen reading software requires hardships that are different from ordinary people, even if the invisible life picture is all based on imagination, he has transformed these difficulties into motivation and continued to complete his literary dream.
He also serves the Zhangpu County Disabled Persons' Federation and the Zhangzhou Blind Association, constantly entering the campus, sharing his feelings and growth, and making audio books for blind friends across the country and publishing them on the online platform for everyone to read.