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Saturday, May 17, 2008

song of the day: leona lewis - better in time

lucky.
how do you define lucky?
striking lottery being lucky?
passing your exams being lucky?
getting distinctions being lucky?
finding a ten dollar bill being lucky?
and the list goes on and on and on...

ever felt lucky that you are still alive?
your family and friends are still with you.
ever felt lucky that you are still seeing the morning sun everyday?
able to stand under it absorbing all the warmth it gives.

it is tragic that cyclone nargis hits myanmar and the earthquake that shook china.
more than thousands of people had died to what we know as natural disasters.
as i read on in the news of how survivors managed to keep themselves alive, there was a sudden surge of "humanity" inside me.
the feeling is hard to describe.
i feel so unfair, at the same time, sympathising for them.
we are all human beings but we all lead different lives.
the reality is hard to accept, literally.
i hate to think of this.
but can you imagine as you are reading this - someone lying underneath the rubble, somewhere in china RIGHT NOW.
seeing nothing but darkness.
inhaling nothing but the smell of rotting corpses.
feeling nothing but the chills.
craving nothing but a sip of water.
and all they hope was just to see light again.
with the difficulty in accessing to the remote area, some of these people are unable to hold out any longer.
they are just, waiting for, death.
the feeling is terrible, and im seriously freaking out by the thought of it.
they suffered by being in an earthquake.
they held on, thinking that maybe someone will be there to save them.
but as time passes, the chances of them staying alive dim.
being able to survive an earthquake while being trapped underneath the cement and not able to get out.
are they considered the lucky or the unlucky ones?

to all victims of both disasters, my heart goes out to you.

-just when i needed you most