HAITI CATASTROPHE: THE REAL IRONY OF OUR HUMAN CIVILISATION (21st Jan 2010, 0005 Hrs)
Honestly, every natural catastrophe reveals how we humans have been overlooking the basic flaw of our civilization inspite of us being educated and having all the modern discoveries and inventions at our disposal. Dreaded tentacles of death engulf as many lives as nature wishes to wipe out in just one stroke. Those who escape the wrath of nature react at first searching for family members, friends and then just about anybody and everybody who has a little sign of life still left… however, the real test of time comes after the initial shock.
To live the next day and then the subsequent days, weeks, months and years… the catastrophe leaves a fear within and life becomes a curse. Survival takes precedence over tragedy and lost members and everything one has build in the past gradually slips away behind, as hope strengthens and leaving no choice but to move forward in life… lessons nature teach us through these catastrpohes, the so-called educated humans, is so soon forgotten that I wonder often when will we ever wake up from our deep slumber. And this is what I call as the REAL IRONY of our Human Civilization!
When tragedy strikes, we unite to face it helping each other with whatever means one has… however, when we are living in peace, we keep busy by plotting various kinds of fight and evil actions. WHY? I know, it is so easy to say – ‘nature or god wants us to be like this!’ YUCK…!!! But what about various lessons that nature has thrown in front of us to learn to be better humans first??? Why do we overlook the good things in life to run after the evil things without really thinking twice about its consequences???
Haiti is fighting a war that is really hard and just impossible to win with all the money in the world… millions have died and many are dying every single day because of lack of food, water, medical supplies and the trauma… well, yet we have the heart (some evil humans) to loot aid flying in from all the countries… billions of dollar never reach the suffering population, who have lost almost every thing they have ever had and wandering in streets not knowing how to cope from the traumatic experience and with nothing in their capacity… yet there will be few greedy inhuman bastards, who will not hesitate one bit to loot and make more money during such tragic hours…
My heart boils when I think of these bastards… who brings out the worst in beautiful life that is meant to help each other and excel by uniting whatever talent… but just the opposite happens almost all the time. I remember when there was earthquake in Maharastra’s Latur region and Gujarat on 30th September 1993 and 26th Januray 2001 respectively… aid from various countries flew in India for all those suffering people. But do you know, many of the aid containers were off-loaded in various ports and straight away taken to chor bazaar (fleece market) and sold to wholesalers, who later made crores selling it to small traders and finally all those aid items (food, clothes, jackets, shoes, blankets and what ever was in the respective containers) were sold on the streets of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and other cities… and the men responsible for such an act were political leaders and rich industrialists… who don’t even bat an eyelid or are shaken by their inner conscience during such a time. How callous we can be even when millions are struggling to live another day without anything??? This is the irony of human civilization that I am talking about… think about it folks!!!
The same is happening in Haiti too. The survivors, who till yesterday were helping each other to save lives of their near and dear ones and strangers, in fact, are now fighting among each other snatching food, drinking water and whatever that is reaching them in aid… to survive just another day. While aid workers from all over the world are facing problems to distribute the aid items to the survivors, the scenes of police and armed guards keeping the large population at bay by batons… is really the real irony of the whole catastrophe. How soon we all forget to help each other even at trying times and that is what surprises me the most!!!
The immediate announcement of aid from various countries to save humanity at such times come as no surprises, however, what surprises me is why we have built and created weapons of mass destruction to destroy other nations by spending billions and billions of dollars when everything is peaceful in the world??? Have you ever thought as to why America and 42 NATO countries are always busy spending billions of dollar to destruct properties and infrastructures and kill innocent poor population in various wars, instead of building nation, just like every country is doing currently in Haiti???
The irony of human civilization is that power destructs and never creates and the earthquake in Haiti is an indication from nature for all those power hungry nation involved in wars saying – ‘it is still time to save humanity in your beautiful life, so leaders of the world don’t waste money on destructing lives and countries just to prove that you are the most powerful of all… because when I (nature) strike… with all the money and power in the world… you just cannot bring back what I can take in just one stroke. Open your eyes and learn from such happenings that I (nature) recreate time and again so that I can teach you all that you have been gifted with life to make it beautiful… so don’t try to become GOD or else ME because if I can give you every joy, I will not hesitate to take it away from you. Wake up, wake up from your deep slumber and try to save humanity by doing good just like you are doing it in Haiti now!’
Honestly, every natural catastrophe reveals how we humans have been overlooking the basic flaw of our civilization inspite of us being educated and having all the modern discoveries and inventions at our disposal. Dreaded tentacles of death engulf as many lives as nature wishes to wipe out in just one stroke. Those who escape the wrath of nature react at first searching for family members, friends and then just about anybody and everybody who has a little sign of life still left… however, the real test of time comes after the initial shock.
To live the next day and then the subsequent days, weeks, months and years… the catastrophe leaves a fear within and life becomes a curse. Survival takes precedence over tragedy and lost members and everything one has build in the past gradually slips away behind, as hope strengthens and leaving no choice but to move forward in life… lessons nature teach us through these catastrpohes, the so-called educated humans, is so soon forgotten that I wonder often when will we ever wake up from our deep slumber. And this is what I call as the REAL IRONY of our Human Civilization!
When tragedy strikes, we unite to face it helping each other with whatever means one has… however, when we are living in peace, we keep busy by plotting various kinds of fight and evil actions. WHY? I know, it is so easy to say – ‘nature or god wants us to be like this!’ YUCK…!!! But what about various lessons that nature has thrown in front of us to learn to be better humans first??? Why do we overlook the good things in life to run after the evil things without really thinking twice about its consequences???
Haiti is fighting a war that is really hard and just impossible to win with all the money in the world… millions have died and many are dying every single day because of lack of food, water, medical supplies and the trauma… well, yet we have the heart (some evil humans) to loot aid flying in from all the countries… billions of dollar never reach the suffering population, who have lost almost every thing they have ever had and wandering in streets not knowing how to cope from the traumatic experience and with nothing in their capacity… yet there will be few greedy inhuman bastards, who will not hesitate one bit to loot and make more money during such tragic hours…
My heart boils when I think of these bastards… who brings out the worst in beautiful life that is meant to help each other and excel by uniting whatever talent… but just the opposite happens almost all the time. I remember when there was earthquake in Maharastra’s Latur region and Gujarat on 30th September 1993 and 26th Januray 2001 respectively… aid from various countries flew in India for all those suffering people. But do you know, many of the aid containers were off-loaded in various ports and straight away taken to chor bazaar (fleece market) and sold to wholesalers, who later made crores selling it to small traders and finally all those aid items (food, clothes, jackets, shoes, blankets and what ever was in the respective containers) were sold on the streets of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and other cities… and the men responsible for such an act were political leaders and rich industrialists… who don’t even bat an eyelid or are shaken by their inner conscience during such a time. How callous we can be even when millions are struggling to live another day without anything??? This is the irony of human civilization that I am talking about… think about it folks!!!
The same is happening in Haiti too. The survivors, who till yesterday were helping each other to save lives of their near and dear ones and strangers, in fact, are now fighting among each other snatching food, drinking water and whatever that is reaching them in aid… to survive just another day. While aid workers from all over the world are facing problems to distribute the aid items to the survivors, the scenes of police and armed guards keeping the large population at bay by batons… is really the real irony of the whole catastrophe. How soon we all forget to help each other even at trying times and that is what surprises me the most!!!
The immediate announcement of aid from various countries to save humanity at such times come as no surprises, however, what surprises me is why we have built and created weapons of mass destruction to destroy other nations by spending billions and billions of dollars when everything is peaceful in the world??? Have you ever thought as to why America and 42 NATO countries are always busy spending billions of dollar to destruct properties and infrastructures and kill innocent poor population in various wars, instead of building nation, just like every country is doing currently in Haiti???
The irony of human civilization is that power destructs and never creates and the earthquake in Haiti is an indication from nature for all those power hungry nation involved in wars saying – ‘it is still time to save humanity in your beautiful life, so leaders of the world don’t waste money on destructing lives and countries just to prove that you are the most powerful of all… because when I (nature) strike… with all the money and power in the world… you just cannot bring back what I can take in just one stroke. Open your eyes and learn from such happenings that I (nature) recreate time and again so that I can teach you all that you have been gifted with life to make it beautiful… so don’t try to become GOD or else ME because if I can give you every joy, I will not hesitate to take it away from you. Wake up, wake up from your deep slumber and try to save humanity by doing good just like you are doing it in Haiti now!’
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