Social empathy should be visualized to make people believe that empathy is powerful
In the past two days, the trajectory of an asymptomatic infected person with the new coronavirus in Beijing who often works until the early hours of the morning has aroused widespread concern. According to the circulation record, he was engaged in the handling of decoration materials, and for 18 days from January 1 to January 18, his work scope involved Dongcheng, Xicheng, Chaoyang, Haidian, Shunyi and other districts, and he worked in more than 20 different locations, working in the early morning for many days. For this reason, he was called "the hardest person in the flow" by netizens.
Because the circulation report is exhaustive, it has also become a portrayal of "life is difficult" in fact. Close-up treatment of his difficulties, like taking pictures to leave traces, put every detail on the field of public opinion.
With the media tracking reports, people know his surname Yue, but also see more difficulties behind him: the father is paralyzed, the mother's arm is broken; the eldest son is lost, came to Beijing to find his son; a person raising six people, life pressure is very high; coupled with the diagnosis of the new crown now, this is almost a dramatic plot, all kinds of misfortunes and difficulties, have been encountered by him.
Many people have developed empathy for Yue's story, sympathizing with his suffering and admiring his tenacity. However, Yue's story is not only touching, his story is not over, his son has not yet been found, we should and must help him.
For him, it was almost a minimum. As he himself said, "I just want to find my son, I don't want to ask everyone for money in this way, thank you for your concern." He didn't want material support, he just wanted to find his son, which was moving. On the other hand, the search for lost relatives is related to the minimum sense of security of parents, and society should try its best to meet his wishes and give him an account.
Judging from some reports, Yue's previous process of finding his son can be described as a series of twists and turns. In addition to Shandong Province, he has also traveled to Tianjin, Henan, Shanxi, Beijing and other places to find his son, while looking for money to support the family. Families that are not rich have "spent tens of thousands" just to find children.
According to media reports, Mr. Yue said that his son's disappearance "did not take three months to file a case", of course, this is a unilateral statement. However, since there is this clue, the relevant departments still need to reorganize and take the initiative to intervene in the investigation. After attracting attention, the incident has indeed created ripples. A staff member of the Rongcheng City Public Security Bureau in Shandong Province said in an interview with reporters that the bureau is currently investigating and that "we are investigating and understanding the whole thing." The Shandong Provincial Public Security Department is highly concerned about this matter and is urging the Weihai Municipal Bureau to speed up the inspection. Many netizens spontaneously forwarded the search information for him in the circle of friends, and the media also launched a collection of clues to find people.
I don't know if this huge attention can bring a bright color to this hard life. Some netizens said that this may be a kind of "blessing by misfortune", this statement is not comprehensive, even if you find a child, you can't talk about happiness, at most it is a return to "normal" after experiencing suffering. But this is indeed a turning point brought about by accidents, and the difficulties of ordinary people have entered the field of national attention, and then condensed a huge social force.
Helping individuals solve difficulties in an unexpected way is certainly not the most ideal way, but it is equally necessary. In fact, it is also a self-soothing through the settlement of individual cases, social empathy. The empathy of our society should be visualized to make people believe that empathy is powerful.
All this may as well start by helping Yue find a son, so that this story has a at least gratifying ending. Only in this way can the emotions people pour into this story not be in vain, and the belief that "tomorrow will be better" will be more solid.
Red Star News special commentator Qing Bo
Edited by Wang Yaotao
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