Sharing of Scholarship Recipients - Tse Wing Sze
Tse Wing Sze (Music)
Recipient of BEA Inspiring Student Scholarship 2019-20
During the application of this scholarship, I was asked about my plan to contribute to society. I was reminded of a classical Chinese quote that “When the Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a great man, it always first frustrates his spirit and will, exhausts his muscles and bones, exposes him to starvation and poverty.” This quote has been a lighthouse for the past eight years.
Eight years ago, I was diagnosed with a disease which requires me to take medication for my entire life. It was supposed I could be rehabilitated with medicine, but things do not always go as planned. Rare side effects happened on me, resulting in my incapability to walk, handwrite, even swallow and speak. I had no way but to leave school for hospitalization. It occurred when I was in Form 4, a fresh senior. When my friends and fellows are enjoying their flourishing high school life, I was in the hospital to learn walking, swallowing, all those inborn abilities of human beings.
Despite the fact that I have lost a lot from my inborn abilities to a happy youth life, I have realized that all the losses are just the costs for a gift that I sincerely want—music.
I was not fond of music when I was a child in that I was forced by my parents to practice the piano. Things have completely changed since my start of pain. When I could not move but lay on the bed in the hospital, it is music to with me—I listened to music, and I cried to the music. Later, when I got better, I started to play the piano again. When I move my fingers on the keyboard, I knew that I am alive. I am no longer a caged butterfly in the diving suit. Playing the music of Beethoven, I can feel his frustration upon his deaf ear; playing the music of Chopin, I can feel his bitter of leaving the homeland. Life, in nature, is suffering, and no one can escape. However, music can bring us tranquility in the suffering.
I eventually understand the responsibility that Heaven want me to take— to seed music into people’s heart. Let the seed of music sprout and grow in people’s inner spirit, and let people enjoy the fruit of music.
I acknowledge that I am not strong enough to face up to my responsibility at this moment. It is appreciative for the BEA Inspiring Student Scholarship to support my dream, both financially and spiritually. In the not soon future, I would be more dedicated to my learning of music and attempt to launch more music-related services so as to be a stronger person to shoulder my life-long responsibility.