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| Lessons Learned Amidst Tragedies |
| 05.14.08 (8:11 pm) [edit] |
What’s happening to the world? The tragedies never seem to stop. After a cyclone killed more than 20,000 people in Myanmar, with 40,000 or so still missing. That calamity reminded people that nothing in this world is permanent.
But do we need to be reminded about that all the time? The latest disaster that claimed the lives of about 12,000 people and a lot still missing happened in China. Monday shook a lot of people’s lives in the country and all over the world as the news of a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the nation.
A lot of schools collapsed with the bodies of young students trapped in the ruins. I can only imagine families broken apart, mothers crying out for their sons and daughters who were just with them to celebrate Mother’s Day.
What good do we pick up with these tragic incidents? We may cry a river for the souls of the departed ones. We may sympathize with those they left behind. But above all, we must be thankful that it didn’t happen to us. We must be thankful for our own lives.
The Myanmar and China disasters tell us that life is indeed too short. We should all learn to live the most out of our every breath. But we must also remember our responsibilities to Mother Nature. Some calamities may be natural. But with the world being completely under men’s mercy, we must take our responsibility to it seriously.
Another need that we must be able to address is our own emotions. These calamities divide families in a flash. They claim lives in a whip of a second. We don’t want to lose someone whom we loved so much but never found the time to tell. You don’t want to learn that the person you really hate passed away without getting your forgiveness.
If you are not comfortable in letting people know what’s really in your heart, you still have an option. Tell them how your feel through bulk printing. Have your thoughts printed out and send those out to the people you really care about.
Let us all learn something good amidst all the tears that such tragedies brought the world. Let the lost lives of those who were deceased in the incidents shed light on our own lives.
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