Letter from Chinese earthquake victim in Japan.

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  • pango

    Almost cried after reading this letter from a online news sire. as everyone know Chinese and Japanese doesn't really have a good history with eachither. infact many Chinese don't like Japanese because the the invasion Japanese did in WWII. but this letter shows otherwise. no I haven't been on the bandwagon posting on twitter or facebook about anything related to Japanese earthquake. however I think this letter deserves it's own thread. 

    "This is a mail from my friend
    She asked me to post for her
    She is in Sendai, Japan
    Rescued early morning today
    After being trapped for 8 hours
    I hope you can finish reading
    Hope you are a good person
    Respect others
    Even if you want to insult
    Please don’t leave traces here
    ——————————

    Aren’t we all comrades?
    Just because you are in China
    Just because you don’t have family or friends in Japan
    You can say words like let Japan sink?
    The Chinese people in Japan aren’t people?

    What is hate
    Who can tell me what hate is
    When you’re standing on a roof surrounded by sea water
    When in that water, is your home
    When in that water, are your friends and family
    Do you still know what hate is?

    He kills you, so you must kill him
    Then I think patriots with this kind of ideals
    Can go to Japan for school or work
    Then choose a rush hour
    Take a knife, and kill whoever you see
    I promise you can kill 100 people
    I promise you can kill all types of people
    I promise you can become the headline news
    I promise you can fulfill your heroic dream

    But you have to know
    That in those 100 people

    Maybe 10 were innocent children
    Maybe 10 were house wives on their way home with groceries
    Maybe 10 were workers working hard to provide for their families
    Maybe 10 were elders
    Maybe 10 were youngsters hanging out
    Maybe 10 were part-timers delivering take-out
    Maybe 10 were people waiting for a bus
    Maybe 10 were passerbys
    Maybe 10 were those who don’t know why you killed them
    Maybe 10 were Chinese

    Even if there really is someone you want to kill
    I advice you
    Choose carefully before you act

    I don’t know how the Nan Jin massacre looked like
    I hate those Japanese soldiers
    I hate that they killed our people
    But today
    I felt like I saw a massacre
    Standing on the roof
    If you want to see
    Look carefully
    Sendai is you patriots’ heaven
    Corpses are right there
    There are some torn limbs
    There are whole bodies
    If you have good eyes
    You can see the small hands of young children
    If you focus
    You can even see some corpses hugging together

    Do you have any sympathy
    Do you know that before Mother Nature
    We humans are one family

    My boyfriend works at a company by the coast
    Till now we haven’t been able to contact each other
    I know, we can’t see each other ever again
    Who told you that only the Japanese died in this tragedy
    Who told you that this tragedy is karma
    Yes
    It’s karma
    The man kind’s karma is here

    Right now I want to live
    I want to live well
    Right here in Japan
    I want to live well
    I’m afraid that if I died
    Many people will blame Japan

    There were over 80 people stuck in the building
    In those eight hours
    It’s true that they treated me like a Chinese
    I have anemia so I felt like I couldn’t go on
    A house wife with a baby beside me
    Gave me some milk powder
    The 20 year old girl sitting beside me helped me find water
    Just like this
    I’m still here
    Perhaps it wasn’t the milk powder that saved
    But their spirits saved me

    Among the 80 people there were only two cellphones that worked
    Everyone let the Chinese call home first
    I was the second who got to call
    Everyone lined up to call home
    Till the end, some Japanese friends didn’t get through to their families
    They understood there was no need
    They gave up

    After around 4 hours
    Some girls were hugging and sobbing
    Some were crying to themselves
    Some were lying on the ground looking up at the sky
    Some were still trying to call for help

    I sat by the wall
    Looked at the Japanese house wife beside me
    She kept talking to her baby
    Soothing the child to sleep and breast feeding
    I miss mom
    I want to go home

    There were too many things I can’t forgot in those 8 hours
    I’ve never been through so much pain in my life
    Thanks to God
    I was saved

    What else do I want to say
    I know I have so much more to tell everyone
    But I’m so tired
    Tired from crying
    After the corpses are found
    I might have to go identify them

    Mom
    Can I not go?
    I don’t want to go
    I’m so scared
    I’ll see so many dead bodies
    I don’t want to go anywhere

    I hope this mail will get sent
    Please help me publish
    Maybe a lot of people will scold us
    But
    I hope you will know a bit more

    I’m tired
    Too scared to sleep
    There are still small quakes
    I have nowhere to hide
    Mom
    Are you watching?
    I’m alive
    Please don’t worry
    Sleep for a while"

    Yet we still have little mother fuckers saying this is karma paying them back for pearl hobour. 

  • pango0

    Sry for typo.
    Sent from iPhone

  • mydo0

    scary stuff. don't worry about the pearl harbour comments though. they're about as worth caring about as you tube comments

  • pango0