Can’t remember how long ago, I came across a song when I was doing something I can’t remember either.  Listening to it for the first time had made me categorize it into a not-bad list. This did not happen too much in the past.  It seems not arguable that it should a beautiful song with smooth and harmonic flow. Besides what traits it has to become a good melody, the name of song itself made me feel something different about this song. Just as it says,

' Sing , the last thing on your mind

the last word on your breath

i'll be the one to keep you

i'll keep you at your best

the last thing on your mind

...

i'll be the one to keep you

one disaster less

 ... ' 

Even I do not know what is the original purpose of this song, it might be too obvious for many people to think about anything else other than love feeling between two. Of course the same thought hit my mind right after I listened to its lyrics for a few second like what every other pop song talks about.  However, I started to feel something somewhat different when the melody played once more and more by my ear.

Yes, it is about love. To me, it sounds more than love between two persons. Lots of times love could extend to a broader sense. It made me think of our love towards our country, as a whole, the love towards hundreds of thousands of people who are suffering huge loss from natural disaster, the love towards billions of people who showed their support for victims etc. Sometimes it is just a mixed feeling, we care cause we love, we support cause we love, we feel sad cause we love and we feel excited also cause we love. This is all about us, even lots of us did not get affected. Several slides of moving moments happened during earthquake rescue back in China flashes through my mind. My heart is almost broken when I saw the picture of grieve scene of 130 million Chinese mourning for the loss from this disaster for three minutes across every corner of the world. It is more than what my heart can bear. It is too much for my spirit to spring back from. Words such as ' disaster' or 'tragedy' just are not enough to address the pain. Raw grief for those I do not know and never will.

By witnessing friends and family around showed great and unlimited care and support to those people affected most by the earthquake, I deeply feel that, this time, every single of us, as a Chinese of black eyes and yellow skin, stands together shoulder by shoulder. Natural disaster is unstoppable which has been proved by many well known moments in human civilization history. Its devastating impact may drive people into desperation. But it did not quite happen this time even the severe magnitude of the earthquake is unprecedented. But it is the people, including PLA soldiers, all of people help rescue, showed that we can do something against every misfortune since we believe the same and care each other.

If we agree with what Alexis Carrel said about hardship :

'Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.'

Then we should realize we also gained something this time. That is the fact that 130 million Chinese get closer by going through all of this misfortune together, heart to heart. Let us remember this special moment and pray for future. We will be better, we will.

I will be the one to keep you.

I will be the one to keep you at your best.