Thinking back on it today, Shee says frankly that he could be so firm about his decision because his children had already grown up, and because he himself had already served as a doctor and entrepreneur for so many years and had accumulated a nice nest egg. He no longer needed to labor, and had come to a phase of his life where it was time to do something for himself.
「心」畫朵朵開如今回顧，施哲三不諱言，他之所以能如此篤定，是因為孩子已經長大，而自己行醫、創業多年，早已累積了豐厚的資產，無須再為溫飽操勞，真是到了「該為自己活」的時候了。