Brother Gareth, do you know? You did not only help LiQin Yue, you also saved me. Perhaps you’re shocked by my words – but they’re true! Under the same blue sky exists a girl who fights the same struggle as Qin! I always used to think that God had unknowingly left me behind, that I was an accident with no place in the world. So sure was I of my status as a dispensable person, that I had prepared to kill myself on June 20th!
Brimming with hope, I had initially wanted to go to university, and yet did not want to bring about financial burden to my parents -- hence, after the Chinese University Entrance Examinations had finished on June 9th, I left home to seek work. Two days after June 18th, the day I began my search, I was shoved into a bleak reality: I was rejected from all available jobs due to my disability. I thought, “I will always be incapable of finding my place in this society!” My parents had struggled in raising me up to be a high school student, and yet I would never be able to pay them back – I am a disabled girl! I thought each day I lived, would be another day I remain steeply indebted to my parents. Suicide seemed the only way to relieve my parents of their burden of caring for me, and June 20th was the day I planned to execute this solution.
Thankfully, on June 19th I learnt of Qin and your story realized that perhaps love and concern still exists on this Earth – perhaps the world isn’t as cold and harsh as I had conceived it to be. Because of this, I no longer contemplate suicide – I will live well despite my disabilities!
I know you’re very busy with teaching, I won’t disturb you anymore! Best wishes! God will bless you and other kind-hearted men!
June 21st , Night time
A small hurt girl from a land far away: MeiYuan