It is just the middle of 2008 but that our country has already suffered from three heart-breaking incidents that hurt the hearts of 1.3 billion Chinese worldwide.
Szechuan had an earthquake with an magnitude of 7.8 at 2:28pm on May 12. The number of deaths has exceeded 20,000. This disaster has aroused our awareness of the followings:
(1) A lot of buildings have been demolished because those schools and hospitals had not been built from concretes and steels but some unstable bricks. These kinds of “Tofu” buildings just could not stand the earthquake. Also, many ignorant citizens, after receiving the estate certificate, just built the balcony by themselves without observing the structure of the whole building. The problem is obvious: once there are natural disasters, these buildings will just be crashed down.
We should avoid a mansion that has many windows and long corridors. A building with too many windows, while which can brighten the rooms, can also mean fewer supporting pillars and beams– which in turn make a building more vulnerable. Long corridors cause the same problem. So what should we do? We should understand, from the knowledge of metaphysics, that in building a school, we should adopt the design of waves, arches or semi-circles because these shapes belong to “water” in the five elements. Since school belongs to “wood” and “water” generates “wood”, this school will then be able to help students more concentrate in studying, and at the same time, resist earthquakes.
(2) Unity and Support
From the dates when we knew how to use words to record what happened around us, we grasped to know that natural disasters just happened every year in different levels of seriousness. Today, the Earth is already a great big family where it should not be divided in some hostile and isolated continents. We should always help and support whenever we can. This month, the hurricane disaster in Burma killed over ten thousand people. I have not only said mantra and prayed for them but also donated a sum of money to them. I think everyone should have a kind heart to assist and help those who really need our sympathy and help. Can we just sit there and eat our sumptuous food while seeing our comrades suffer in no food and shelter? We can always help in the following ways:
1. Donate the money or material supply to those organizations designated by the country to help the sufferers.
2. Say mantra and pray for those who had died to help their transmigration.
3. Educate your next generation to have a sympathetic heart and teach them the concept of patriotism, that their suffering is our suffering. We are obliged to help as far as we can.
4. Show your care and consolation, through web, letters, etc, to the refugees and pray for those who died. If you know your friends or relatives are in the area, just call them and say your words of care and offer help, if possible.
(3) To promote the concept of fraternity
After the disasters of air crash, avalanches, volcano eruption, earthquakes, SARS, fire outbreak or the ship sinking, we can see on TV the pain of those who have lost their most dearest family members and relatives. The death of husbands and wives, of sons and daughters, is among all others the most painful experience. We will even cry over those sufferings as seen on some TV series and drama, not to say many real case examples. Through the pain-staking suffering of others, we should learn how to live and carry our lives on. Should we commit suicide if we fail in love affairs? Should we fight over quarrels? Should we kill others just to get a few more money? We are not kids – we are adults should have distinguished what’s right and what’s wrong. I always say to you that the real happiness is to see others happy. From the Szechuan earthquake, we should learn how to realize the concept of fraternity - to show a caring heart to those strangers, who indeed, are our very dear brothers and sisters. We should offer our hands to them.
(4) To Master the First-aid Skills
Everywhere worldwide, first-aid courses have been a compulsory prerequisites for schools, government organizations, community groups and hotels. It is a set of skills and knowledge for emergency. Our country has vast land majority that it always suffers from floods and disasters. First-aid can help people as well as ourselves when we face these. I encourage that at least one of the family members should take a first-aid course and master its skills and knowledge.
We should take every preventive measures to observe the next earthquake, however minor, to come. It is because after the initial earthquake, there will be a number of tremors and might cause tsunami. That is why we should be prepared for the aftermath of the earthquake.
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Earthquake cannot destroy our love to motherland, Natural disaster cannot defeats Chinese.
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