Peng Liyuan, also as a volunteer propagandist of Chinese AIDS prevention, has ever participated in a public service advertisement in Fuyang. In the advertisement, Peng’s partner was a boy, who shocked Peng when noticed at the first sight, for his eyes were filled with loneliness and apartness instead of artlessness. This boy is an orpahn, infected with AIDS on his arrival at the world.
During the shooting, unexpected trouble occurs. However did Peng talk with the boy, trying to amuse him, the boy just disregarded, without any glance at Peng, so the shooting could not go on. This boy had been accustomed to living in his own world, where he cared nobody but himself. On this occasion, the director told Peng,”if you want to communicate with him, you’d better hold his hands.” Then Peng held the boy’s blistering hands and gave him a hug, which was not infectious.
This boy stared at Peng for what she did was inconceivable for the boy, and smile appeared on the boy’s face.
Six months later, Peng met the boy in a telecast hall. Peng was surprised at great changed in the boy, who was much sociable and called her mother. Maybe that hug had been buried in his mind and eliminated high lonliness.
I have a friend who is a reporter in the TV station, they prepare to plan a program in world aids’ day, and he volunteered himself to act an AIDS patient. Last December 1 in the morning, the friend arrived at the victory walk street, he chose a most conspicuous position to halt, here was the liveliest business street in Nanchang city, the human spirit is exuberant. He hung a sign in front of the chest; one the above had been written several large Chinese characters: "I am the AIDS patient, may you hug me?" The cameras hide by far in a quoin. His standing in the street attracted many pedestrians to surround immediately; when this curious vision touched three words "the AIDS", they ran away in all directions, some people even cover mouth and ran. The friend had the psychological preparation early, so still expression nature, neither arrogant nor servile.
Unceasingly some people passed through from his side, curiously had a look at the sign in front of his chest, but turned around immediately. Two hours pasted, unexpectedly no person had the courage to hug him, gradually, cannot keep. He started to persuade the pedestrian on his own initiative, "hug me, there is no danger to have normal contact with the AIDS persons”, but the people actually ran away quickly. Sunlight bright, the human tide is turbulent on the street, he stood on the avenue lonely, it seems that he was completely abandoned by this world. That indifferent pairs of eyes made him be afraid, he had even forgotten, he actually was "the actor".
Finally, a middle-aged man who putted on the windproof coat walked to his front looked at the sign, with no words he stretched out the arms and deeply hugged him, and then patted his shoulder. "Thanks!” The friend filled with grateful gratitude, inexplicably, the turbulent tears suddenly burst out, merely a silent hug, unexpectedly let this seven feet high man cry toward the street. After awhile, a pair of young lover passed by, separately they came up to hug him, and then went away hand by hand. Hug...one by one.
That day, the friend finally brought the smiling face to leave.
Afterwards when mentioned this experience embarrassedly, the friend was still ashamed: "Mentions ashamed, at first I only felt interesting so I choose to go.but simply hadn’t think that I can cry. I had never dropped a piece of tear since I grow up but that day, when I obtained the first stranger's hug, the tears really were unable to control. That kind of feeling, if you do not have to experience by oneself, is unable to imagine."
The disaster with no doubt is difficult to bear, but more fearful compared with disaster is observer's indifference and the ignorance. Shows loving and concern, sometimes only needs a gently hug.