Peter Kuo

  Written by Peter Li-Chang Kuo ( Chinese ) As the saying goes, “ A great fool lives his whole life without awakening .” I knew from a young age the words of Jesus recorded in " Matthew 12:50 ," yet only now — having reached what Confucius called the " sixth stage " of life — have I begun to loosen my long-standing " self-deceptions ." After making adjustments, I suppose perhaps I can at best be considered a “ medium-level fool .” Television programs have become increasingly YouTube-like. We can now watch two episodes of the same variety show from ten years apart at the same time. Essentially, guests who appeared ten years ago are still the same guests ten years later. A decade seems hardly enough for anyone to produce meaningful achievements. Yet in several spans of such decades, I created one accomplishment after another out of nothing—though at a tremendous cost. The greatest cost has undoubtedly been my " stiff neck ," which gradu...