Incidents like what happened in South Asia make us reflect on how such disaster could occur.
Philosophers, theologians, critics and others ask why questions, while philanthropists and socially inclined civilians enter the fray with missionary zeal to help.
What makes us look for answers and what makes us feel for incidents like this are indeed questions whose answers go deep in human nature. Why do we care in the first place? Why do we feel a sense of injustice? Where does this foreboding come from?
The answers to those concerns rise out of our selves as persons. We maybe terrified by natural catastrophes, horrified perhaps at the horror; and yet we also hope and pray, and crave and long for wholeness amidst destruction, we love amidst tragedy, we seek to heal amidst pain and we laugh at all the mirth life has to offer.
We are human beings and an intrinsic part of that is the ability to feel and think above such vicissitudes.
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise; Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse, and stuff’d with the stuff that is fine; One of the Great Nation, the nation of many nations, the smallest the same, and the largest the same - Walt Whitman
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