Let us take a little moment from our packed schedule (or thought-to-be-packed daily routine) and give a thought for the ones in Burna and China.

It is horrid when we see photos of bloodshed and lost of loved ones.
I can't stand looking at shots of mothers weeping over the lost of her child. But it is even harder not to look at it. That one shot represents so much, so much to that parent. But to us, the not-so-affected, it may only seem like an artistic shot. And no, that shot shouldn't win any prize... please, don't. Another's suffrage should never be someone's prize.

Can you imagine the repercussion on the affected. Life was normal a day before, and suddenly, they find themselves standing OUTSIDE their house, lost. Everything they worked for and the ones they worked with are gone. Just like that. How rapid, how real. I don't know if it is Mother Nature's wrath of someother divine intervention, but it is too much to bear. Way too cruel. The cyclone shouldn't have created much of a problem, the situation was worsened by the fact that the affected area was a delta. A low-lying region with meandering rivers leading outwards to the sea. It was the wakes swept up by the wind that caused most of the damages... Chance event?

China, earthquake. 7.9, mind you, it was measured 7.9! Enough to crash buildings. What's left? Mere smithereens. A high school collasped...Children, kids, vapourised. They became homogenous with the cracked concrete, the dust, the microscopic. It was measurer 7.9, but we cant measure lost.

Now where is the therapeurtic, curative assistance?
Yes, it is pouring in. Much faster than previous incidences where Mother Nature unleashed her fury.
But why are we faster now?
Are we more prepared? Maybe...
Are we financially able? Yes, but is that the real reason?

I guess we all know why we act so much faster than before,
               it is because we are very much rehearsed.

This isn't the first time,
               and I guess it wouldn't be the last.

But we are all getting way too experienced in this game of helping the injured. Doesn't it mean anything that this is becoming common-place?

We should all bow our heads.