{"id":6679,"date":"2016-07-27T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecornel.pro4.designworks.tw\/en\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:08:55","slug":"life-is-in-our-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/en\/life-is-in-our-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Is In Our Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-3f5518f172cd09d5476389c890eb8e14\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-3f5518f172cd09d5476389c890eb8e14 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-3f5518f172cd09d5476389c890eb8e14 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-3f5518f172cd09d5476389c890eb8e14 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-6680 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-6680 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20090408124201f_pic1.jpg\" alt='' title='20090408124201f_pic1'  height=\"375\" width=\"500\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20090408124201f_pic1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20090408124201f_pic1-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20090408124201f_pic1-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-234c5a2376f3c31d836740697e2890c9\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-234c5a2376f3c31d836740697e2890c9{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-234c5a2376f3c31d836740697e2890c9 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-234c5a2376f3c31d836740697e2890c9 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-234c5a2376f3c31d836740697e2890c9 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Life Is In Our Hands<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ever since I was young, I have learned the Chinese proverb \u2018We are the people who steer the boat of the life\u2019. Whenever I was assigned to write an essay about what I wanted to be, I always added this proverb in my writing. However, I never understood what it really meant. Instead, I found I could barely keep my head above water in the stream of life.<\/p>\n<p>Last January we heard the sad news that Margret, Dr. Provvidenti\u2019s wife, had passed away. I tried to persuade Shyi-Dong to go back to America to visit him. Dr. Provvidenti is a professor we revere and he has played a very important role in Shyi-Dong\u2019s research work. However, Shyi-Dong couldn\u2019t make the trip because he was caught up in an overwhelming workload, so I made the trip by myself.<\/p>\n<p>In the small town of Geneva, NY, I met Dr. Provvidenti who is nearly 90. Since he just lost his wife and had brain surgery recently, he confined himself to home, alone. Fortunately, he has lots of friends whom he helped or socialized with in the past keeping an eye on him. In addition, his children take good care of him because the Provvidentis have kept close family bonds due to its Italian background. Dr. Provvidenti is a veteran of World War II. He became a scientist after he worked in a lab. Then he moved to America, married an American woman, and became a world famous scientist. Indeed, Dr. Provvidentis has had a dramatic life. He changed his life from a soldier to a top world scientist because he steered his boat carefully.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva is like our second home town. When we lived there, we were the only Chinese family, so we were showered with friendship from our American friends. Twenty-some years ago, no one knew what kind of life we would have. But, now that we are all getting old it is like reading the last few chapters of a novel, we can almost tell what the ending will be.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to all the friends\u2019 catch-up, I feel that I finally understand why we are the people who steer the boat of life. Twenty years ago, we were very much the same with each other. We worked or studied in the academic field, had a small family, lived simple and financially tight lives. Now everyone has developed their individual stories. Some are successful in terms of their family, career or finance. Some are miserable.<\/p>\n<p>I am very happy to hear all the good news about our friends, but I feel sad for those friends sometimes have to deal with bad news.. All of a sudden, I realized that Shy-Dong and I are steering our own boat, and our lives are truly in our hands.<\/p>\n<p>Bih-Hua Chen<br \/>\nFeb. 9, 2009<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharing","category-founder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Life Is In Our Hands - \u5eb7\u4e43\u723e\/\u5eb7\u723e\u5609\u570b\u969b\u5b78\u6821<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/en\/life-is-in-our-hands\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Life Is In Our Hands - 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