I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe one difference I have noted is that it's made me more tender to my students and to young people particularly. It's made me mellower. I began to have a different perspective, because I may not be around much longer to be hassled by life's pressures.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIn actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim