Since 2017, Yuan Changgeng of southern university of science and technology has opened a general elective course "Understanding Death", which wants to take students to "understand death in the vertical and horizontal picture of history and the world, and re-examine themselves, others, society and the times".
This course has been taken for 4 years, and some students have learned to think about life and understand their own and other people's situations. However, the climate of the times, the campus environment, and the mentality of students are changing drastically, and the vitality of the curriculum is slowly weakened and is about to end, all of which makes Yuan Changgeng feel frustrated. However, the impact of this course still persists in many students and spreads with their thoughts and actions.
You will choose how to die
"Suppose now that you are God and can write your own life script, which way would you choose to leave the world?" There are 4 options: a lifelong orphan, sudden cardiovascular disease, AIDS, the disintegration of the plane at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and death in an air crash.
In Nanshan District, Shenzhen, in the lecture hall of the "Understanding Death" class of the Southern University of Science and Technology, 60 or 70 students crowded the classroom and stared at Yuan Changgeng, who asked questions on the stage. Yuan Changgeng, who is in his 30s, is the teacher of this course, with a flat head and a small mustache, a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his round face, and a loud voice.
Students raised their hands to vote, and the most selected was to die in an air crash. This surprised Yuan Changgeng, who had originally written it for the sake of making up numbers. In his expectation, this should be the most unacceptable way to die, and it will be excluded by the first.
Qin Hao was one of the students who chose to die in the air crash. He was a sophomore, his schoolwork was very heavy, he felt that the future was uncertain, and he felt that dying in an accidental air crash was as gorgeous as fireworks, and it was in an instant, and there was no pain. Other students explained that their reasons for choosing an air crash were roughly similar: they had no responsibilities, they didn't have to face aging and an uncertain future, they couldn't stand illness and loneliness.
Yuan Changgeng asked the students, have they ever considered how difficult it is for parents to accept this method of death, and how they will live for the rest of their lives?
Next, he begins to illustrate the context and significance of each option. For example, AIDS, which is not as extremely dangerous as many students think, but closer to a chronic disease, as long as regular medication, the patient's life expectancy and quality of life are almost the same as normal people. Yuan Changgeng reminded the students that this means that those who choose this option have more time to spend with relatives and friends and take responsibility, rather than leaving them with regrets and pains that they did not say goodbye.
The topic continues to expand. Around the theme of this lesson, "Good Death", Yuan Changgeng went from AIDS to the stigma of the disease, to how to talk about death with the elders and how to support the values of self-support. From time to time, he asked students to express their views and reminded people to think: Why is death not a purely individual event?
From 2017 to 2021, Yuan Changgeng ran a "Understanding Death" course every year. This school-wide liberal arts elective course in social sciences has no teaching materials, and the content is formulated by Yuan Changgeng himself. In each course, Yuan Changgeng focuses on the themes of what life is, good death, soul, aging and care, illness, funeral, euthanasia, massacre, sacrifice, suicide and other topics, trying to take students to understand the human situation and clarify the meaning and values of daily life through the analysis and discussion of death.
This is a rare course in Chinese universities. In a country where life and death issues are often avoided, death education is even more secretive than sex education. Qin Hao and his classmates are among the few young people who can touch on these topics at the age of eighteen or nineteen: Does the soul exist? Do people have the right to commit suicide? Should euthanasia be supported?
The course was declared by Yuan Changgeng himself. When he graduated with a Ph.D. in 2016 and first entered southern university of science and technology, he attended Introduction to Cultural Studies. Yuan Changgeng was serious and enthusiastic, and his lectures were vivid, and he soon became a star teacher in the school, and many science and engineering students received humanistic enlightenment from him. But he vaguely felt that there was something "separated" between this kind of curriculum designed according to the mature academic context and the current life.
Figure | Yuan Changgeng
According to the practice of SUSTech, teachers should arrange a special period of time "office hour" every week to answer questions. Soon after entering the school, Yuan Changgeng answered questions for the first time, a boy pushed the door in, and said directly, Teacher, I asked a particularly simple question, "What is the meaning of life?" ”
Yuan Changgeng was "confused" at that time, and did not expect to face such a question. After that, similar problems recurred in his office hour, and students wrote to ask for help. Seeing that students generally have needs in values, psychology and emotions, Yuan Changgeng felt that he "couldn't turn around" and did not respond. He wanted to create a course that would help students think seriously about life and how they should live.
The echo of the death class came in March 2022, when China Eastern Airlines MU5735 crashed, killing all 132 people on board. Qin Hao, a student who had taken a death class, remembered the choices in that class, and he felt that after the class, it was no longer so easy to make a choice: dying from the disintegration of the plane no longer seemed easy, and suffering from AIDS was no longer so difficult to accept. Qin Hao said that the death class makes up for the lack of death education, especially in the current situation of the epidemic and the air disaster, which will make people think about these issues.
On the night of the air crash, Yuan Changgeng told his wife that in the future, he planned to write a will every six months and arrange for his posthumous affairs. He has now written his first will, which deals with the disposal of family property, the arrangement of care for the elderly, how to deal with the aftermath, and a very important question: what to do with the thousands of books in the family.
Looking back at the 4-year teaching process of the "Understanding Death" class, Yuan Changgeng's self-evaluation is very pessimistic. "This course is a failure," he said. He is about to leave the Southern University of Science and Technology, "going to a new unit, there is a high probability that there is no chance to toss this 'unlucky' general elective course." ”
At the Southern University of Science and Technology, which is known for its reforms, for 4 years, the fate of Yuan Changgeng's death class, like its name, is obscure and heavy, and has reached the end.
Perform a funeral
Student Wang Zhenzhen did the homework of the "Understanding Death" class for the first time, and chose "Write a novel with the theme of 'death' among the three topics given by Yuan Changgeng." He has always loved science fiction, and he wrote a science fiction novel about a low-level woman who got rid of death through mechanization. Yuan Changgeng corrected Wang Zhenzhen's homework word by word, pointed out the defects in the construction of words and sentences, and encouraged him to continue writing.
In class, Yuan Changgeng also likes to let students express themselves. When talking about "suicide," almost all the students in the class approve of the right of people to commit suicide, and only one student opposes it. Some students felt that the opponents were backward in their thinking, but Yuan Changgeng solemnly invited him to the podium and asked him to fully explain his reasons. He then analyzes the logic and blind spots of each opinion of both the pro and the negative, presents the complexity of the choice, and the students reflect on what they originally thought was absolutely valid. In the "Euthanasia" class, he reminded students not to understand euthanasia in fashion, but to see the ethical and executive dilemmas behind it.
Students' thinking about death gradually expanded. An aircraft-loving student handed in homework detailing how the civil aviation industry learned little by little from the air crash. Yuan Changgeng read in his work that an aircraft is a complex system, even if an air crash can be attributed to a screw or a scratch, but the deep reason is often in the interaction of various parts. The same is true of human life.
Dong Xin was most impressed by the lesson on "sacrifice." Out of a backlash against the grand narratives that prevailed in the past, the students were somewhat skeptical about "sacrifice", and Yuan Changgeng recommended that they read "When the World Is Young". Later, dong Xin read this book about the Chinese volunteer army to Spain to help fight fascism, and when he was touched by those brave young people, he remembered what Yuan Changgeng said in class: Do not superstitiously believe in grand narratives at the same time, do not go to extreme individualism.
Long before the opening of this course, the attention and thinking about the problem of death had entangled Yuan Changgeng's life for 30 years.
Yuan Changgeng was born in 1985 to a miner's family in Shandong. Mining is a high-risk job, although Yuan Changgeng's father is a technician and does not have to go down the well, but the fathers of the surrounding friends basically work underground. "Small" accidents that kill one or two people happen every few years. Sometimes, in order to avoid accountability, adjacent mines also buy and sell death "indicators".
The miners are well paid, the jobs are stable, and the standard of living of the miners' families is generally much higher than that of the localities. But the sensitive Yuan Changgeng realized at a very young age that all this has its price, and there is danger behind those delicious and fun things.
When Yuan Changgeng was 7 years old, his mother died. In the last period of her life, she spent time resisting the engulfment of leukemia. In Yuan Changgeng's memory, his young self at that time did not understand what had happened, but only felt that the situation at home had become a little strange, his parents were always absent, and he often had to live in his grandmother's house.
After the mother left, the father and relatives carefully sealed the matter and did not talk about Yuan Changgeng. "If I'm an unfortunate child in the eyes of adults, at least someone should ask me what my misfortune looks like, how I feel, but no." Before Yuan Changgeng became an adult, he never took his mother to visit his mother's grave at home. In the simple cognition of the elders, avoidance is the best protection. Soon his father remarried and took him to form a new family, a topic that became even more taboo.
For the next 10 years, Yuan Changgeng studied alone what is lost and what it is to have no mother. There was no place for him to speak, "like a choked neck." It wasn't until he read anthropology in college and began to focus on death-related research that he suddenly realized that in his own life, the matter of "mourning" had never been completed. Avoidance and masking, blocking the possibility of truly accepting death.
Therefore, when he wanted to open a course to respond to students' needs for values and the exploration of the meaning of life, Yuan Changgeng naturally thought of the problem of death. This pending proposition in his life comes to a point in time when it can be unfolded.
Toward the end of the first semester of the course, Yuan Changgeng assigned a special assignment: let the students divide into several groups, each designing a story, scenes, and performing a funeral.
During the class, Yuan Changgeng often asked students whether they had experienced the death of the elderly at home, how to deal with funerals at home, and what steps and division of labor were needed. He found that the vast majority of students had no concept of the communities, customs, and histories associated with funerals, let alone of trauma and mourning. He wanted to create an opportunity for them to experience.
The "funeral" is held in the evening. A clearing in the classroom was cleared, the lights were turned off, and the moment darkness arrived, life seemed to be temporarily interrupted. In the closed and pure space, the words about death slowly spread out.
One of the panels depicted a schoolboy who fell into the water while he was in school and was carried by his family to the school to claim compensation. A boy from rural Henan plays the head of the family. Boys are usually introverted, and after coming to Shenzhen for college, they often have low self-esteem for their substandard Mandarin pronunciation. The performance brought him back to a familiar scene, speaking the authentic Henan dialect, and the boy freely presented the interweaving of sadness, game and calculation in the event.
Later, the boy and Yuan Changgeng became friends, and in the homework of another course, he revealed his hometown and growth experience, and discussed the cost of rural development. His reflection on his origins and the story of his life began with this "funeral".
Figure | "Funeral" scene
Another student, Xiao Lei, arranged a pagan funeral: white masks, black clothes, a slightly frightening atmosphere, and a large section of unintelligible lines. During that time, Xiao Lei was in a low mood, which was a projection of his emotions, and perhaps also catharsis.
Xiao Lei remembers that there was a passage in the "funeral" in which he lay on the table as a "corpse", wearing a mask, and the surrounding area was dark. A thought suddenly burst into consciousness: If it is really dying, what else do I want to do but not do?
At that time, Xiao Lei had been oscillating between continuing to study, engaging in scientific research in the future, and working as soon as possible. At that moment of imminent death, he decided to try to do the scientific research he liked. After graduating from undergraduate, he studied abroad and became a scientific research reserve.
That night, Yuan Changgeng has been excited about the creativity and imagination shown by the students. After the smooth continuation of life was stopped, these young people vaguely glimpsed its complex aspects through the cracks. Seeing complexity is the starting point for reality.
The Array of Nothing
American journalist Erika Hayazaki's "Lessons on Life and Death" records a course called "Perspective on Death." Professor Norma Bowie gave this class to students at Kean University in New Jersey, taking them to cemeteries, autopsies, talking to felons in prisons, and visiting hospice centers. From not adapting to being able to gradually understand, students gain courage in confronting the various imperfections and demises of life.
Yuan Changgeng believes that such field teaching is a particularly important part of the "Understanding Death" lesson. He initially envisioned taking students to cemeteries, hospitals, and other places related to death, "to practice in the scene."
But the school's tight regulations blocked the action. On the night of the funeral, excited students took some photos of the scene and posted them to social platforms, which attracted a small amount of attention online. It was almost 12:00 a.m., Yuan Changgeng received a call from a school leader, who reprimanded: We are worried about the development of SUSTech every day, and all of them have been ruined by you.
Yuan Changgeng and the students were somewhat surprised. SUSTech is a national comprehensive reform pilot school for higher education, and the first president, Zhu Qingshi, proposed the goal of "de-administrativeization" and achieving "professors governing schools" and other educational reform goals. Before 2017, many students applied for the school that was not yet ranked because they thought it would be more free and open. Yuan Changgeng did not encounter any obstacles when he applied for the "Understanding Death" course. This time, they hit the invisible wall.
In the following semesters, Yuan Changgeng did not organize similar activities and changed to written homework.
When designing the course, in addition to discussing physical death in the ultimate sense, Yuan Changgeng also spent a lot of time exploring "death" in the broad sense: loss, farewell, decay, and damage. "There is a view in the philosophy of death that we actually experience small deaths every day, such as saying goodbye to many people, things, and things." He wants to teach his students that "there will be negative forces in life, that will deconstruct your value system, that negate your meaning," and then have the courage to face it.
However, this is at odds with the mainstream atmosphere on campus. At this science and engineering university, the information students get is that as long as they brush out the eye-catching GPA, do projects and internships like upgrading monsters, and hand over a beautiful resume, they can get a good job offer and go to a world-famous university for further study. The status quo seems to be true: in schools, from academicians to ordinary teachers, the titles and levels are different, and the resources at hand are very different. The school encourages students to compete and pinch their fingers, "from the laboratory to the better laboratory to their own laboratory, this is the only version of the future they paint for students." ”
Behind the fierce scramble is the single evaluation standard and the coldness of instrumental rationality. Yuan Changgeng worries that when the colorful soap bubbles are broken, will the students suffer almost inevitable bruises, will they be more disillusioned? He would rather reveal some of the dark side of his life to them in advance and help them prepare mentally.
When a student suffering from depression came to class, he told Yuan Changgeng that he had already decided to die, knowing that there was such a class, "I want to hear what you can talk about." Listening to Yuan Changgeng analyze the various aspects of the death problem, advocate facing life sincerely, and think about where their tension is, the students gradually eased up and began to slowly accept their emotions. Later, he gave up his studies at SUSTech and reapplyed for a bachelor's degree in a foreign university, crossing the psychological barrier in a way that accepted that he had failed at a certain stage.
Pressure from the mainstream is always there. Once, Yuan Changgeng listened to a colleague say that a school leader named the "Understanding Death" class several times at the whole school teaching meeting: Is it auspicious to die every day?
In the mainstream-guided chorus, a class and a person's voice are thin. Once in office hour, Yuan Changgeng received a male student. The boy took out an excel form from his bag, which scored and ranked the 6 girls in the class according to indicators such as appearance, academic performance, and personality. The boy said he wanted to have a girlfriend, so he made this form and started with the top girl. Currently, the top three girls have all rejected him. The boy felt very puzzled, because he also scored himself, and according to the score, he could at least match the third place girl.
After the consternation, Yuan Changgeng tried to understand the boy's concept. The boy's academic performance is very good, and the surrounding environment has always told him that as long as the grades are good, everything will be there. So he couldn't understand why he had not fully fulfilled his promise after rushing to the top of that evaluation system as required.
Yuan Changgeng felt that he was caught in what Lu Xun called the "array of nothingness", and encountered all kinds of invisible "walls" everywhere. During the last two sessions, he had to conduct self-censorship to avoid causing trouble for his students.
He didn't care much about his situation, but he worried that students would struggle to develop the courage to face the truth. After the China Eastern Airlines disaster, Yuan Changgeng noticed that many of the speeches on the Internet were similar to "Have you (the victims) crossed into the parallel world, hurry up and obediently go home". "There is a tendency to cute and aestheticize cruel things," which he wants to teach his students to avoid. In the Battle of Nothingness, this is particularly difficult.
Superfluous people
Students who are more familiar with Yuan Changgeng call him "Old Yuan" and will eat and drink with him, singing international songs and second-hand roses. Yuan Changgeng said that he was lucky to catch up with the afterglow of Zhu Qing's era, and in the first two years of the class, there were many students with personalities and ideas in the class, and there was no shortage of teacher-student interaction in the classroom.
The seasons are changing. There are fewer and fewer students with outstanding personalities, and at the same time, sensitive students begin to feel the contraction of the times. A particularly good computer science student went to the industry's top companies for internship in his junior year, and the company was very satisfied with him and proposed to let him join the company directly after graduation, with an annual salary of 400,000 yuan. When everyone else was envious, the student told Yuan Changgeng that he didn't want to go to that company at all. Because he noticed that none of the regular employees of the team where he interned were over 30 years old.
"They already feel the pressure of the environment." Yuan Changgeng recalled that the era of his growth was the golden year of reform and opening up, no matter which road he chose, the escalator of the times would take people up more easily. "Those days may be over."
In the last two periods of the class, Yuan Changgeng found that the students who chose the courses had a certain commonality: they were suspicious of the mainstream atmosphere of the campus, somewhat marginalized and unambitious, "like the 'superfluous people' in Russian literature", depressed and lacking in action.
This may not be accidental. Two academics in Louisiana did a 20-year study that surveyed more than 900 students enrolled in the sociology of death. They found that nearly 24 percent of them didn't know how to deal with their grief. It is also mentioned in The Lessons of Life and Death that many students go to Norma Bowie's death class because they are tired and confused about life and want to find a meaningful way of life.
The difference is that Norma Bowie's students have plenty of hands-on opportunities. They formed "change from themselves" groups, painted homes in rescue centers, improved the environment, distributed free lunches to homeless people, helped hurricane victims rebuild their homes, and so on.
Yuan Changgeng also hopes that students can form a small community through the "Understanding Death" class, and read, discuss and practice together. Shortly after arriving at SUSTech, he gave a sharing session to encourage students to avoid unnecessary competition for grades, be braver to go to others, and build a life of mutual support. Later, in class, he repeatedly reiterated this view. When talking about "funerals," he told students that people usually have a social support system in the face of death, from relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbors, etc. This support system is not only needed in the face of death, it runs through a person's life. The more close and reliable an individual has with his or her surroundings, the more likely he is to gain meaning in life.
Figure | Yuan Changgeng's letter to the students
In the present, students lack corresponding space for action. Competition is becoming more and more intense, and the inner volume has become a buzzword, and I have to spend more time brushing up transcripts and resumes. Yuan Changgeng found that their isolation from each other was deepening, and they were reluctant to express and communicate. As soon as he asked a question in class, the students quickly lowered their heads, afraid of being called to speak. He no longer drags the church because there are very few more students asking questions. The number of assignments that used to be 3 times a semester was reduced to one, as students spent less and less energy on electives — electives had fewer credits, and even if they got high grades, they didn't contribute much to the GPA. Yuan Changgeng described that in the last two years of class, he seemed to be facing a sea, and the silence was boundless.
The "Understanding Death" lesson is caught between two discourse fields. On the one hand is the mainstream discourse field, high-spirited, positive, promising a smooth future; on the other side is the hidden discourse field among students, anxiety, exhaustion, sleepiness, no matter which side can not make the course really effective.
The more intimate students saw the contrast between Yuan Changgeng's inner feelings and his classroom performance. Qin Hao remembered that at that time, Yuan Changgeng was still enthusiastic and confident in class, maintaining a high density of output, but privately, he did not shy away from his frustration.
Yuan Changgeng thanked the students, who insisted on completing the course with one last point. But he felt that the course "could only start with the effect of emotional massage in the end, and could not form any effective action" and that it "failed".
The composition of the cosmic web
Did this course fail? In April 2022, 3 months after the end of the last "Understanding Death" class, I asked several students who had taken the class. They have all graduated and live in Shanghai, Kunming, Japan and other places.
Dong Xin, who was touched by "When the World Was Young", is now a graduate student in anthropology at a university in the south. His undergraduate major was marine science, and he took several courses in Yuan Changgeng and became interested in anthropology. When he learned that Dong Xin decided to go to graduate school in interdisciplinary studies, Yuan Changgeng asked him to meet at a convenience store near the school and listed him a detailed list of professional textbooks.
"Symbolism is getting heavier and heavier[from class], and there is less specific practice and understanding," Recalls Dong Xin. The "Understanding Death" class is in its third year, and like Yuan Changgeng's other classes, the classroom is often crowded with students who are in attendance. But not many people really listen to the lectures, and many students do their own things below, "with the feeling of writing homework in crosstalk." ”
I am puzzled by the behavior of going to the audit and not listening carefully to the lecture, Dong Xin gave an example: Can you understand the Internet celebrity punch point? It's the kind of mentality that you hear that something is cool and come and walk around.
Dong Xin does not think that this course has failed, "in all the courses of Old Yuan, its staying power is the greatest." "The issue of death touches the essence and core of life, and even after the course, it constantly makes people think about the process and circumstances of life." Dong Xin said that after his grandmother suffered from cerebral infarction, how to take care of the patient and accept the reality that the relatives were damaged due to illness and the personality was gradually no longer complete came from the preparation of the "Understanding Death" class.
Similar to Dong Xin, Wang Zhenzhen also believes that this course may achieve some kind of "success" in a longer span of time. "In my classmates, including my future life, I will always experience decadence, loss, and death, and at those moments, everyone may think of some of what Teacher Yuan said."
Since his junior year, Wang Zhenzhen has often taken the initiative to chat with classmates who are depressed to help them relieve their emotions. The philosopher Camus and the Three Seals of Buddhism that he often talked about during the conversation were all heard from the "Understanding Death" class. In his senior year, he urged his classmates whose mobility was reduced due to depression to seize the job and help them revise their resumes. He wants to do his best to build good connections with others.
After the science fiction novel about death was affirmed by Yuan Changgeng, Wang Zhenzhen began to try to write. The first time he published his work in "Science Fiction World", he excitedly showed it to Yuan Changgeng, who was also very happy and sent a social dynamic commemoration. Now Wang Zhenzhen has published many works, won writing awards, and several of his novels are about death. Writing has become an important way for him to explore life.
Qin Hao became Yuan Changgeng's peer. On the eve of graduation, he studied computer science and had doubts about entering the big factory, so he found Yuan Changgeng for consultation, and Yuan Changgeng suggested that he try more different jobs. After working as a sales, translator, and university research assistant, Qin Hao eventually entered a public middle school in Shenzhen and became a teacher.
Recently, due to the epidemic, the teachers and students of the third year of high school have been required to be all sealed off in the campus, and Qin Hao, who is responsible for the equipment of the third year of high school, is also among them. After a long time of closure, Qin Hao was in a somewhat depressed mood, but thinking of the "Understanding Death" class, he still wanted to be a supporter in a social network at such a difficult time. The elderly workers hired by the logistics are responsible for a large number of epidemic prevention statistics and filling in forms, and they are not familiar with computer operations, so Qin Hao teaches them by hand. He also uses his weekly relaxation time to select movies such as "Mind Task Force", "Floating Life Day 2020", "Dog Thirteen" and other movies to show to high school students. What made Qin Hao feel helpless was that once he wanted to play the movie "Death Poetry Society", which tells the story of a literature teacher taking students to read poetry and think about the meaning of life, the school directly banned it as soon as it heard that there was "death" in the title.
Recent evenings, Qin Hao often reread the letters written by Yuan Changgeng to all the students at the end of the course after talking to friends in Shanghai and other places. He recalled the "Understanding Death" class, as well as the four years of getting along with Yuan Changgeng and the people and things on campus. This convinced him that he could start from the side and that action would make sense.
He is particularly memorable for the "school cat" incident in 2018. At that time, there were several cats wandering around the SUSTech campus all year round, which was very popular with students and was nicknamed "school cat". One of the gentle relatives, the Tanuki cat named Lao Wu, often goes to the activity room to play with the students, and some people become friends because they feed it together. In the tense and dull life, Lao Wu is like the glue and lubricating oil of the campus.
At the end of 2018, Lao Wu suddenly disappeared. The body was highly decomposed when it was found in the back mountain, leaving only bones and a small amount of fur. The incident quickly fermented, and many students fell into sadness and anger. Yuan Changgeng published a message of mourning for Lao Wu, using his photograph as a poster cover for a new issue of the "Understanding Death" class, and remembering it with the students in class: "In our often anxious and hurried life, several cats are like a constant light source, precipitating many feelings that are difficult to reveal to others. Qin Hao felt that this helped the students to dispel their grief, calm down the chaotic and torn collective emotions, and let Lao Wu enter the common memory of the campus.
Figure | Course poster with old Wu photo
Qin Hao remembered that every time he walked through the Yingxin Bridge, which was often active during Lao Wu's lifetime, and remembered the cute kitten, he would think of the last "Understanding Death" lesson. At that time, the classroom was particularly quiet, and after more than 30 hours of "death journey", Yuan Changgeng slowly read out a passage from You Zhiyou ——
If everyone is a small planet, the deceased relatives and friends are the dark matter around them. I wish I could see you again, I know I won't see you again. But your gravitational pull is still there. I am grateful that our cones of light have overlapped each other, and that you have changed my orbit forever. Even if we never see each other again, you are still the reason why my galaxy has not fallen apart, and it is the eternal composition of my cosmic web.
Qin Hao felt lucky. He is a science and engineering student with little exposure to the humanities before entering SUSTech. He didn't know whether being enlightened meant more happiness or pain, or where practice would lead. But he was convinced that Lao Wu, this course, and the time spent together by teachers and students in the class, had illuminated himself and was part of his cosmic web.
*Some students in this article are pseudonyms
Written by | Rowland
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