What many people pursue—material wealth, desires, a life of superiority, comfort, and freedom—these goals and pursuits can eventually be achieved through hard work and perseverance.
However, for someone like Chichi who craves a life of peace, happiness, emotional stability, and the ability to bring joy to others, such an existence proves incredibly challenging, day after day, year after year.
Yet this is what Chichi strives to do. Lying in a hospital bed at this moment, he feels immensely fortunate to still be alive. There are too many people he can't bear to leave, and he cannot stand to see his family saddened or in pain because of him.
Chichi has always known that his life is not truly his own. It was his father who risked his own life to pull him back from the brink of death; it was his mother who meticulously cared for him and nurtured him with love every single day.
