Arthur : Joy Lin
Instructor: Michael Zieser

After some weeks’ confusion, we are here again without much change in appearance. Legs, arms and all what we owned still belong to us, except that our minds have already been changed by what we have heard, seen and felt since the day of May 12th.
You might wonder why here, why this time, and why those innocent people who did nothing, deserve suffering. I will not say it was an accident nor a matter of being lucky or unlucky. We all have different ways in which we are destined to end up with. And this recent event was just another inevitable end, for those people who died under the earthquake. There’s no such problem as “supposed to be or not supposed to be.” It was their way of ending, and ours we will meet.
However, still remaining here, we have the responsibility to carry on our own performing our fates and to proving that as things pass, love and hope can never die away. We have been shocked and have been shaken, as a result we all should be awaken. What the earthquakes brought is not a tragedy but a test of the whole world’s humanity. Through helping, giving, and encouraging, again we find the value of our existence.
Why should we care about somebody we don’t have any relationships with? Because this is the reason why a human being deserves to have a soul. Why is sharing our own assets with somebody who might not requite the right thing? Because our house did not fall and it isour duty.
Disasters seem to be horrible, but they have, indeed, given humans the chance to re-think, re-learn, and re-build the faith in each other and the virtues that had almost been forgotten among the coldness of this skewed generation. We also got the chance to witness that beauty can still be grown from a broken heart. People being physically and mentally injured will use their privilege to exhibit an amazing resilience and witness the incredible miracles that can happen in human lives. Suffering forges, molds, and strengthens us. Despite the loss, it cultivates great tenacity, great patience, and greater wisdom in us. Appreciate the awesomeness of the nature, see beyond the earthquakes’ destruction. Recognize amazing true stories about beautiful humanity miracles that are also going to be told.? All the bitter, you taste, will only make the upcoming sweeter and sweeter. What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.
We have the right to have fear, but please remember that lights will always recover from the darkest despair. There is no time for remorse for people who won’t come back. They had already done all what they should do on Earth. Although their end came tough, they still finished their missions, regardless of the length, it was a good job. And again, for us who have not yet finished our vocation, let’s be the lights that can’t be snuffed out in day nor night. That’s the reason why we are still here, alive.

在板塊喘息的間歇中，我們又健全地帶著本來(lái)就屬于我們的腿與手臂回到這里。除了也許忘了刮的胡子及沒(méi)空剪而變了型的頭發(fā)，我們的外表是一如往昔，但相信大家都意識(shí)到，我們的內(nèi)心早自五月十二日那天，就被所聽(tīng)、所見(jiàn)及所感受的震撼，改變了。也許有人會(huì)懷疑：為什么偏偏在這里？為什么偏偏這個(gè)時(shí)候？為什么是那些也許一輩子不偷不搶不貪污的無(wú)辜人民被壓又被埋。我不會(huì)說(shuō)這是個(gè)意外，也不認(rèn)為這是幸運(yùn)或不幸運(yùn)的問(wèn)題。地球上廣大的人民自有自己注定遇到的結(jié)局。而這次眾所皆知的災(zāi)難，也就只是那上萬(wàn)人民一起遭遇的另一個(gè)不可避免的人生終點(diǎn)。沒(méi)有應(yīng)不應(yīng)該或配不配，總有一天我們也會(huì)以各種不同的方式畫(huà)上句點(diǎn)。
但在那之前，我們有責(zé)任盡所能地繼續(xù)背負(fù)我們進(jìn)行中的人生，也有義務(wù)在其中證明愛(ài)與希望永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)隨事物消逝。一次次地我們被驚嚇、被動(dòng)搖，因此我們也早應(yīng)該從短視中被喚醒。地震所帶來(lái)的不是一場(chǎng)以哭泣閉幕的悲劇，而是一場(chǎng)令人振奮的人性考驗(yàn)。在幫助、付出與鼓勵(lì)彼此中，我們又重新找到自己實(shí)實(shí)存在的價(jià)值。為什么要關(guān)心某位與我們無(wú)相干的人士？因?yàn)檫@就是人類除了心之外還擁有靈魂的證據(jù)。又為了什么我們要分享自己的財(cái)產(chǎn)給一個(gè)也許永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)回報(bào)的人士？因?yàn)檫@就是我們自己住的住宅還穩(wěn)穩(wěn)地站立著的目的。
在這個(gè)幾乎冷漠又人性扭曲的世代，被看似可怕無(wú)情的種種天災(zāi)大難卻總賜給人類重新思考、重新學(xué)習(xí)并重新建立對(duì)彼此的信心及喚醒好德行的機(jī)會(huì)。我們也因此有機(jī)會(huì)在其中目睹破碎心靈也能開(kāi)出美麗花朵的動(dòng)人見(jiàn)證。身心兩受創(chuàng)的人民也將利用殘缺向世界展現(xiàn)人類驚人的恢復(fù)力及許許多多讓人難以置信的奇跡?；茧y磨練我們、塑造我們更大大的強(qiáng)化我們。雖然總有失喪，但患難激發(fā)我們的能耐也教導(dǎo)我們?cè)S多智慧甚至哲理。難道你們看不到大自然的奇妙嗎？在地震對(duì)人造物的悚人毀壞之上，板塊運(yùn)動(dòng)不僅建立了地表上更多的雄偉景觀、促進(jìn)生物界的循環(huán)，更帶來(lái)了許多將被傳頌、關(guān)于美好人性的感人故事。苦讓將到來(lái)的蜜更甜。毀不了你的只會(huì)使你更強(qiáng)壯。
我們都被賦予恐懼的權(quán)利。但是請(qǐng)記得，最黑暗的絕望也必會(huì)被光明蓋去。已經(jīng)沒(méi)有多余的時(shí)間給我們繼續(xù)為那些回不來(lái)的人痛悔了。雖然這些人的結(jié)局來(lái)得艱苦，他們都實(shí)實(shí)在在地以血肉之軀完成自己在地球上或長(zhǎng)或短的使命。
最后，我再一次地說(shuō)，讓我們這些使命尚未完成的人一起成為日夜不滅的光，照亮這個(gè)依然美麗的世界。這就是為什么我們還站在這里、心臟踴躍地繼續(xù)跳動(dòng)的理由。