Are We Ever Going To Wake Up?

It is 16/3 - 2.36 am and I cannot sleep after watching the heartbreaking news of the catastrophe in Japan and especially after watching the attached video footage. Just cannot get the sense of the devastation. The heightened emotion of loss, the gripping stories of survival and the horrible thoughts of the worst that is yet to come, have glorified my awareness of how vulnerable we are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dQDWmuNV_Y

Just in the last 20 years, mother earth has unleashed her pent up emotion with her wrath of some of the most ferocious and vehement natural disasters recorded in history.

- Mount Pinatubo Eruption - 1991 measuring 6 out of 8 on the VEI scale,

- Hurricane Katrina - 2003 measuring the highest category 5,

- Bridge Creek Tornado - 1999 measuring the highest category F5 which lasted for 3 days!,

- Aceh Earthquake - 2004 measuring 9.1 on the richter scale and triggered the worst tsunami in the 21st century effecting the entire shorelines of the Indian Ocean killing half a million people and completely wiping a civilization of the Onge Tribe and now,

- Japan Earthquake - 2011, and we are still bracing ourselves for its aftermath.

And yet we still see or have seen demise among humans, what with the recent chaos over political dominion in Libya and others like it, we still have or had people like Gaddafi, Mubarak, Mugabe, AL-Bashir, ALL Ayatollahs and George Bush in our wake to rule mankind with their ridiculous ideologies?

Last weekend my housemate and I had the honor to sit with Dhyan Vimal who said something that hit the spot in the wake of all that is happening; "We are the missing link between the apes and humankind. We are still evolving towards being human. We are just still man because we can still eat when we see people begging for food and we can still be obese while 2 billion people are starving. We keep the routine of telling our maids what to do that we eventually forgot that they are people too." Are we ever going to be human?

And after all the heartbreaking loss, I still hear utterly annoying complains and whines of people for the most trivial issues like not having enough food, not having the right shirt to go with the skirt, not having enough money to go on lavish holidays, and not having the right Manolos to walk down the aisle. Gosh!!! Please pass me the sick bag now!

Having said that, the things that really get on my nerves are really the mean attitudes of the ignorant selfish individuals who live their lives being unkind to others. Why do they have to hurt people by saying nasty words? Is it really necessary to be malicious and insensitive? They are not responsible for the existence of others, so what gives them the right to judge and be intolerant? I sometimes wonder how these people have been brought up? And please, don't even bring God into this. Its IRRELEVANT.

As of last night, my ears have developed an allergy towards bitchiness, insensitivity, intolerance and nastiness. If any of these were to pass through my ears, a reaction in the form of the same attitude will be returned to the source, ten fold. So if you find me being unbearably bitchy or mean, you know that you have caused an allergic reaction and totally deserve every bits of it.

People are dying, families are losing, children are starving. Hopes are running thin with these people in the god forsaken countries. How many wretchedness do we have to see, how much pain do we have to hear and how long the despair do we have to bear until we open our hearts and let kindness seeps through its vents?

Lets STOP all these pettiness and trivial immaterialities right now. Just imagine, if the world ends tomorrow, will all these matter today? So think of others and just be nice as it costs ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Love All,

Azmi,

16/3 - 4.06 am