The Earthquake
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunamis has hit 60,000.
It is one thing to study something in your geography textbooks, but another to witness the might of nature, and the disaster that unfolds.
I find it hard to express in words the kind of pain and anguish and the suffering of the people who lost families and friends in the disaster. I find it even harder to put down in words how painful it is to see so many people lose their lives in this disaster.
On Sunday morning at 7, everything was perfect, the weather is wonderful. Who would have thought that 24 minutes later such a disaster would strike? The suddenness and the magnitude of the disaster is mind blowing.
When you read about people losing their 11 children, daughters asking for help to look for their fathers, parents grieving over dead children, vacationers having a tragic end to their holidays, things seem very bleak and hopeless. Why do things like that happen to people? Why does something like that have to occur?
I just watched the news, and there was footage of a woman breaking down and crying uncontrollably. I don’t know which country she is from, and what or who she has lost. But in her, it was an embodiment of all the emotions and the suffering people are experiencing. It is painful to watch.
Because this does not directly affect Singapore, I find that we are generally very blasé about it. Certainly, if something does not affect you, would you pay much attention about it?
But I urge you to put yourselves in the shoes of the disaster victims. Think not only about how lucky Singapore is geographically, but also of the pain the disaster victims are going through. The world is so much bigger than that which you inhabit.
I find myself questioning what I can do to help. The Red Cross representative said that what are really needed now are monetary donations. However, there must be something more than that which we can do.
When destruction is so great, words seem insignificant.
It is one thing to study something in your geography textbooks, but another to witness the might of nature, and the disaster that unfolds.
I find it hard to express in words the kind of pain and anguish and the suffering of the people who lost families and friends in the disaster. I find it even harder to put down in words how painful it is to see so many people lose their lives in this disaster.
On Sunday morning at 7, everything was perfect, the weather is wonderful. Who would have thought that 24 minutes later such a disaster would strike? The suddenness and the magnitude of the disaster is mind blowing.
When you read about people losing their 11 children, daughters asking for help to look for their fathers, parents grieving over dead children, vacationers having a tragic end to their holidays, things seem very bleak and hopeless. Why do things like that happen to people? Why does something like that have to occur?
I just watched the news, and there was footage of a woman breaking down and crying uncontrollably. I don’t know which country she is from, and what or who she has lost. But in her, it was an embodiment of all the emotions and the suffering people are experiencing. It is painful to watch.
Because this does not directly affect Singapore, I find that we are generally very blasé about it. Certainly, if something does not affect you, would you pay much attention about it?
But I urge you to put yourselves in the shoes of the disaster victims. Think not only about how lucky Singapore is geographically, but also of the pain the disaster victims are going through. The world is so much bigger than that which you inhabit.
I find myself questioning what I can do to help. The Red Cross representative said that what are really needed now are monetary donations. However, there must be something more than that which we can do.
When destruction is so great, words seem insignificant.
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