I wonder how lucky we are, to be able to live in a land free of major natural disasters. No earthquakes so far, but we don’t know whether it could happen any time in the future. No typhoon although it floods almost every years during the monsoon periods but seldom we hear of many life casualties due to natural disasters. This land must be blessed and we must all be blessed as well.
A poor country like Haiti is already full of troubles before the earthquake. It is the poorest country in Latin Americas, a country with 50% illiteracy and extreme puberty has forced countless children into slavery, some working as unpaid household servants. As though all the difficulties are not enough, God sent them a devastating earthquake on 12 January 2010, just as all of us are happily ushering a new year. Ten of thousands were killed, and the actual figure may not even be known. These poor people were buried alive. Some may have gone through the extreme suffering under the wreckages for a few days before they eventually died. Such is the predicament of the poor Haitians who could only wonder what sins that they could have done to land them with such fate. Life isn’t fair, perhaps to them it is simply too extreme.
We are lucky to live in a place free of major natural disasters, but unfortunately there are still many man-made disasters happening now and then taking away many valuable lives. Just like the bus accident not too long ago which clearly due to the negligent of the bus driver and more recently the dragon boat incident which took away the lives of a few young students. Now everybody is pointing fingers at the school for not taking sufficient safety measures for such high risk out-door sport activity. A teacher who didn’t know how to swim was appointed the team leader and the students who didn’t know how to swim were selected as the rowers. Are Chung Ling High School not in the way creating a tragedy?
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