*tears*

I've been hearing and reading about the Haiti disaster all week, but today I actually cried. I felt the pain, the tragedy, the overwhelming emotion you feel when you try to imagine another person's suffering. It's so hard to try to explain why things like this happen. Is it to be thankful for what you have? Is it to finally get together are human beings? Is it to change us a little bit and make us realize how fragile life is and how in one second, everything could change? I write this with tears in my eyes because I believe there is no explanation, really. I don't blame mother nature, or God or fate or the devil. I'm not going to sit here and point fingers and try to understand it. I've seen the pictures, the heartbreaking faces and the complete mess left behind. In some way we all suffer tragedies every day, we are all fighting a battle and it takes a small gesture to make someone's life a little better. It takes courage, understanding, sympathy, intelligence, integrity to look behond the bullshit and think about other people other than yourself. Maybe this is a wake up call for us all, to look around...to be thankful, to help others, to smile more and complain less, to stop being such a bitch, to donate, to be kind to annoying neighbors, to be a better person. I hope this tragedy will leave more than pain behind, perhaps make a change in us, perhaps leave behind a valuable lesson among the tears.

R.IP all of those who passed away this week, everywhere.