Today
is a Monday, like every Monday it's a little gloomy and rainy so it seems in
recent memory.
Day goes by slowly and from one meeting to another, everybody is walking by
fulfilling their own little existence dutifully just like clockwork.
Pete came by and asked me, "how is your geography on China?" I was
wondering what the heck he is talking about. He then told me there is a big
earth quake in China and many people are dead. My heart just dropped. It
definitely feels like the world just stopped for a moment.
Never in my life time that we have a major earth quake in China. The last one
was in 1976 a 7.3 quake in TangShang. I was shocked and could not say anything
in a moment. I realized that there are a lot of kids in school that were trapped
under the rubble and struggling for their lives. A twinge of sadness just went
through me and I don't think I feel this way ever since the day on 9/11 when
Twin Tower went down in flames.
Just like that, so many lives could just disappeared in a blink
of eye. In a moment like this, you start to realize that you don't take every
mundane day for granted. People are fighting, arguing over seemingly trivial
things and complaining and whining some more about endless problems. In that
moment you start to appreciate every single day that is given to you. You start
to treasure every single moments you spent with loved ones because life is so
fragile and it could be gone in an instant.
Bas told me there is nothing we could do except to say a prayer for everyone
that is affected by this tragedy. He's right, nature is so much more powerful
than human might, with all these technologies we have, these people still could
not do anything but perished.
Even though I'm not a Christian, I pray to God that every survivor that could
be saved would be saved; that all the parents that lost their kids in the
disaster could find solace and peace. |
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