So damn lucky it wasnt us
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The huge earthquakes and title wave that shook Asia and India got us all thinking, gee thank God it wasnt us. It's a thought as human and selfish as it can be, i know. But thats what everybody's been saying this morning at work.
I woke up with the news on, and although i heard about it during the weekend and saw it on the evening news, it kind of felt even more terrible hearing it so early, after a quiet night, and out of the safety of my dreams. It was like a crush back to reality and i forgot to open my parachute.
Getting ready i could hear the commentator talking about the approximate number of deads, missings, and homeless. How they had to pile up the bodies waiting to be recogised and burried. How an island had completely gone silent even though there were over a million people leaving there. How even if the people over there fleed to the higher lands, those lands were jungle.
I looked through the window and gazed to the sea view below. The sky was blue with a few white clouds and the sea seemed so quiet.
On my way to work, i noticed the kids playing in the streets, the people going to work, the traffic going about, and was thinking to myself how many of them knew just how lucky they were.
Vanuatu is on the 'Fire Belt'. We're surrounded by volcanoes either on land or submarine. Our land is shaken by earthquakes of different intensities pretty often. We could be the victims of such disaster any time.
All we say is thank God for it wasnt us.
I woke up with the news on, and although i heard about it during the weekend and saw it on the evening news, it kind of felt even more terrible hearing it so early, after a quiet night, and out of the safety of my dreams. It was like a crush back to reality and i forgot to open my parachute.
Getting ready i could hear the commentator talking about the approximate number of deads, missings, and homeless. How they had to pile up the bodies waiting to be recogised and burried. How an island had completely gone silent even though there were over a million people leaving there. How even if the people over there fleed to the higher lands, those lands were jungle.
I looked through the window and gazed to the sea view below. The sky was blue with a few white clouds and the sea seemed so quiet.
On my way to work, i noticed the kids playing in the streets, the people going to work, the traffic going about, and was thinking to myself how many of them knew just how lucky they were.
Vanuatu is on the 'Fire Belt'. We're surrounded by volcanoes either on land or submarine. Our land is shaken by earthquakes of different intensities pretty often. We could be the victims of such disaster any time.
All we say is thank God for it wasnt us.
