March!!!
How fast time flies. Indeed! It seems like yesterday that we bade 2011 goodbye and ushered in a brand new year. Today, we are once again given a brand new start. Today is the first day of the month of March. IT’s time we bid goodbye to February, when we had been shaken in many ways-like the anxiety that we all have to endure or the physical shaking of the ground as in the case of an earthquake.
For most of us, we had been subjected to intense emotional anxiety when rumors of an impending tsunami started to spread like wildfire that fateful day in February 6th. No one ever anticipated anything untoward would happen that day. For most of us, it was a one fine day, ideal for going out to the beach or malling perhaps. For me that was the day for self-absorption. That was the last day of my workweek and I was quite excited to be able to take my days off. I was excited to finally rest my soul after a week of hard labor. On the contrary, what followed afterwards were days of mental and emotional anguish.
It is undeniable, February 6th 2012 would leave an indelible mark in our collective memory. However, our predicament that day is incomparable to the hardships that our brethren in the areas massively hit by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The mental and emotional vexation we had imposed on ourselves was a result of our own doing or undoing. As I have said before, our reactions on that day, we “telltale signs of our inability to properly respond” in an event of a calamity. I believe that fatalities or injuries resulting from human error is more disturbing than the one caused by a natural disaster.
The people of La Libertad, Ayungon and Guihulngan suffered so much; but, there was no one to blame, no one to point their accusing fingers to. It must be frustrating.
However, I do believe in the Filipinos' resillient spirit. We shall overcome all hardships. The month of March holds so much promise like the breaking of the dawn. It is up to us to grab hold of the opportunity.
For most of us, we had been subjected to intense emotional anxiety when rumors of an impending tsunami started to spread like wildfire that fateful day in February 6th. No one ever anticipated anything untoward would happen that day. For most of us, it was a one fine day, ideal for going out to the beach or malling perhaps. For me that was the day for self-absorption. That was the last day of my workweek and I was quite excited to be able to take my days off. I was excited to finally rest my soul after a week of hard labor. On the contrary, what followed afterwards were days of mental and emotional anguish.
It is undeniable, February 6th 2012 would leave an indelible mark in our collective memory. However, our predicament that day is incomparable to the hardships that our brethren in the areas massively hit by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake. The mental and emotional vexation we had imposed on ourselves was a result of our own doing or undoing. As I have said before, our reactions on that day, we “telltale signs of our inability to properly respond” in an event of a calamity. I believe that fatalities or injuries resulting from human error is more disturbing than the one caused by a natural disaster.
The people of La Libertad, Ayungon and Guihulngan suffered so much; but, there was no one to blame, no one to point their accusing fingers to. It must be frustrating.
However, I do believe in the Filipinos' resillient spirit. We shall overcome all hardships. The month of March holds so much promise like the breaking of the dawn. It is up to us to grab hold of the opportunity.
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