There is nothing worse than being abandoned by all people around you. That's the situation facing an eight-year-old boy in a village in Southwest China's Sichuan province. The whole village appealed against him to leave the place for he's being affected with AIDS.

Yes, I understand the villagers fear that it's a disease that might also bring disaster to others when the virus got transmitted through blood or the other channel.

Most of us, me included, worry about being physically injured by external causes–disease, accidents and attacks, and we are all trying to be alerted with the potential risks around that might endanger our life. We are all doing the best to protect our body from being affected and harmed and imperfect. That is, no doubt, the instinction of human being. But what about the soul? Have we done enough to prevent our soul, the invisible part of us, from being marred, corrupted or even depraved?

The soul and body are such two different things. One can smile to a person but swear when turns back; one might sweep inside but lol as facing others; one can also look decent and comfortable in front of people but tainted and obscene at other situation. It doesn't bother us to play two or more roles, but the question is we are prone to focusing on the vulnerability of the body while neglecting the delicacy of the soul.

In fact, the soul is easily misled. An example is the raft of corrupted officuals. They must know in advance that money and power and beauties may contaminate their soul as the virus batter the body, but they are still willing to enjoy the transitory fantasy.

Though it's incomprehensible that the soul should be joined to the body, and we should not have the soul, as the philosopher Blaise Pascal said, it's our body and our soul that combined to form a person. So, for a person but not the "wind in trousers", it'd be better to keep the balance between the two parts and place the same emphasize on them, in case one day the widening gap may be too late to recover.