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Crisis
Crisis is to our life what illness is to our body. Just as fatal disease
can destroy our body and sometimes even put an end to our lives, so does
smashing crisis knock us down so hopelessly that we might never have chance of
standing up again. However, most crises that frequent us in life are not such
category. They, like occasional ailments which sometimes can bolster our body’s
immune system, are mostly minor and surmountable and therefore making us hardy
enough to survive whatever adversities in our later life. Even those serious
crises, if handled properly, can be turned to a blessing to us, too.
As far as a nation is concerned, crisis can be rendered beneficial. Take
Wenchuan earthquake which shook most of Sichuan recently for example. The crisis
has cost us Chinese a lot. Houses collapsed, bridges broke down and many
affected areas were cut off from the outside world. Nearly a million people lost
their homes, ten thousands of people were injured and another ten thousands of
people were killed. But our sufferings won’t go in vain. Scientists are more
determined to improve the means by which we forecast earthquakes with more
accuracy. We should build houses which can survive the destructive earthquakes.
And we also should better the mechanism to face the emergencies and crisis.
As for economic life, crises are not always rendered bad. During these
times, we can stop the race of fast economy to speculate about some fundamental
issues of humanity such as how much high-speed development in this way can
contribute to the well-being of human life. Just take my own country for
instance. Of course, in the past two decades or so, our economy has gained the
highest speed man has experienced. But haven’t we paid too much? Our rivers are
polluted. Our natural resources are shrinking. Our national power of creation is
drained. Is it worthy of it? Isn’t it high time we gave it a serious thought?
Shouldn’t we stop making ourselves long in quantity and short in quality? And
chance of deep thought has come with this crisis, which is now deepening in most
parts of the world.
Crisis sometimes contributes to our life treasure in a way that few can
imagine. It can weather us and make us strong enough to face ourselves when we
feel weak. Eric, my uncle is a case in point. He had hard time in his childhood
going through such a fatal disease that he had never thought he could survive.
He was in due course saved by doctors. Ever since then he regarded his life as a
second given by God and has been so grateful to the world that he has been doing
whatever he can to give back in the same measure to other fellows. And now he is
living a happy and successful life.
As a well-known ancient Chinese notion goes, the past lessons if not
forgotten can be good teachers for us all. If we can bear in mind the various
sufferings and ordeals we have experienced, then our sufferings will not go
unrewarded and those of our compatriots who was killed in the earthquake did not
die in vain. We should take the lessons from crisis and regard them as a chance
for new growth.
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发表于 2016-7-11 08:55:35