http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4268387.stm
She talks about the two brushes with death that she recently had. I thought it was one of the more weird articles I have read recently. Weird because of what it made me feel. I read with lot of interest cos it talks to real brushes with death that a person had. As you read on through the article you expect a sense profoundness to come off the article or expect it to speak to some action that the person took because of these possibly life changing events.
She talks about the fact that she was in Phuket at the time of the tsunami. And how this place looked war ravaged, and the death and destruction in front of her eyes. Then - this is the most weird part of the article for me - Right after talking about seeing probably the worst situation a person could imagine seeing in their life - she decides to take a cruise (the very next day). Cruise off the coast of the saddest situation possible, and the fact that it was liberating.
I was itching to say couldn't you do something - to help!! Anything - something....
I would like to believe that I would do something. I would like to believe that I would think this moment is bigger than me. I would like to believe there is a larger sense of what is going on inside me and I would try to help in my own way. And that I would see myself as an extremely fortunate person and consider the less fortunate.
Then I again I could have been the person catching the next flight home. I haven't been there. So who am I to say anything. What have I done, do I need a moment of such magnitude or am I just offering excuses for what I have not done?
What would you do?
posted by ganpatibapa @ 11:37 AM
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