Fragility of Lives

It feels like there has been a series of disasters this year. In Japan, earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster and huge typhoons. Here in this country, the earthquake a week ago and a plane crash that happened yesterday, which killed 19 people. Two of my colleague’s friends got killed in the earthquake, and a colleague from another UN agency died in the accident. It is hitting not quite home as I do not know them personally, but it is surely hitting close and my anxiety level is high. I keep thinking that I or my friends could have been on that plane yesterday (the same airline that I always fly with). Especially, I was waiting for someone to come back yesterday and he was supposed to fly with the same company in the same morning.

Quite recently, a girl, whom I knew in Guyana passed away. She was a fellow volunteer, a very nice girl. She died very quickly after being diagnosed with a disease.

Though we are resilient in difficult situations, human lives can be so fragile. We don’t know when our time comes. It almost feels that it’s a miracle that I am still alive. I should not get consumed by this anxiety but really need to live each day and each moment to the fullest.