Reverberation
Can sound save lives? Yes
Six years ago, Mr. Cheng, a 24-year-old terminally ill bone cancer patient, used my midnight radio program as a painkiller. During the three years he was sentenced to death, my broken thoughts were his only life-saving spell. Six years later, he found me, as thin as a pine tree. His eyes were warm, Lin Xinyue, and I remembered your voice for six years.
From then on, he dialed the hotline on time at 1 o'clock in the morning and stayed with me through the noisiest late night in the most silent way. It took us three months to complete the companionship that others would only have in a lifetime - the moonlight on the twelfth floor of the ward was filled with old MP3s recorded for six years and a confession that could only be witnessed by radio waves.
He said that voices have memories and I said that being needed by him was the most luxurious response I had ever heard.
This is a story about how to use sound to save the soul and be healed by the soul.
