从地震发生以后，一切报道都以赈灾为主，就是火炬传递也不例外。在井冈山的时候，也就是地震后第三天，一个外国人这么跟我说： “When you have something like that, you always look for the good side. It is a calamity for those it happened to, but it gives others an opportunity to help, to show their goodness, maybe even to revive their goodness because we get caught up by searching for other things, material things unfortunately. This gives us a chance to use our material wealth to help those people rebuild in the earthquake area.” While he felt really sorry for those who died from the earthquake, but from their death, “a greater situation may emerge. Maybe we don’t have to wait for a disaster to help each other. Maybe the people who are strangers to help the survivors to rebuild do that without having to have people dying. We can prevent this kind of things, not that we can prevent natural disasters, but by having improvement our social life by caring about each other on a day-to-day basis.
