May 19 2008, I was seating in my car and waiting for the time 2:28 PM. It is the time that the whole country paused to mourn the country's massive earthquake victims. Flags flew at half-staff , when the horns on cars, trains, ships and air raid sirens began to whistle, I joined them.
I remember clearly, the same time one week ago, as I started my car , turned to the road to my office, I found something was wrong. My car moved itself without any power, the road quiver gentlely at the beginning, I thought "Oh, that is an earthquake in somewhere, it will not last long", but I was absolutely wrong. Gentlely quiver became swing and shake, stronger and stronger. I heard windows broken, home staffs fell to floor with crash, and people yelled. I left the car and stood at roadside, buildings around me buzzed loudly and the earth under my feet seems roared as it vibrated. I saw the buildings swayed with some angle. Suddenly I awared that the buildings might collapse while there are a lot of people inside. What should I do? I did try to shout, I did try to move, but my body did not obey, my brain was empty totaly.
It was a strong quake really, although the epicenter was 160km away from us, we could feel its power definitely. From the moment everything and everybody around me changed their track totally.
On that and succeeding days, I got the whole pattern piece by piece from radio, TV and volunteers who went to the epicenter tried to rescue those survivors. I saw a picture so painful only appeared in movies. The nature is too power to be offend, and did not show any mercy. When I saw the pictures showing the bodys of teenages and children lying on the playground of thier school, I was filled with pain.
Behind the tragedy there are a lot of problems come on the heels ,we are far away from ease off . Now there are around thirty earthquake lakes above our head, people are busy on handling the bigest one. The earthquake hurt a lot of people deeply , the earthquake orphans and handicappeds, their lifes were changed in one minute, maybe have to pay their whole lifes time to heal their wounds.