Disappointed is an understatement.
But then, what are my woes compared to these?
Full article found here.
"All the schools were full the Friday afternoon the tsunami struck. The buildings are all on high ground, so there are many children who have lost their parents.
Everybody here, absolutely everybody, has lost relatives. People are living in the school now, sitting quietly in rows in the classrooms and gymnasiums, with their blankets. Anyone who needs medical treatment has been flown out by helicopter as there is no hospital left in the town."
Poor children. And just imagine, your entire life swept away. Your loved ones, your house, your cars, your businesses, gone in just a matter of minutes. The place you grew up in, your favourite toy, your photos in your laptop and camera (assuming you hadn't the time to save them), poof, gone.
No electricity and no water for a million homes.
Snowy conditions, yet there's only shelters to get protection, and no heater due to no power.
Only rice the size of golf balls and some soup for a day's meal.
And on top of that, aftershocks and fear of radiation leaks.
Suddenly your entire life is upside down. Changed.
Studies aren't the priority anymore. Work isn't the priority.
It's back to the essential basics-surviving.
Rebuilding something from nothing is not easy.
Rearranging your life goals is not easy.
And doing everything with calm dignity and no anger is definitely not easy, at least for people like me.
I pray for the Japanese, but I admire their attitude too.
If it were any other country that suffered the earthquake and tsunami, the death toll would probably be much higher.
Time to learn from them. Three disasters (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis) didn't stop them from giving up. Thus, this one failure isn't going to stop me from giving up. =)
So many labs and reports to do, plus class tests,
so little time...
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