From "Migrant Birds Flying North" by Jiang Yan

Be a tree in the next life. If there is an afterlife, be a tree and stand for eternity without any gestures of joy or sorrow. Half of it is peaceful in the dust, half of it is flying in the wind, half of it is covered with shade, and half of it is bathed in sunshine. Very silent and very proud, never relying on and never searching. The author Jiang Yan is a pity that the author who wrote such beautiful and sad words has passed away forever. Beijing, East Fourth Ring Road, Ocean World Real Estate. On December 29, 2007, she committed suicide by jumping from the 24th floor. Because of her cheating husband who asked for a divorce, and because of a mistress.