Natural Disaster

Dreams fail,

Unguarded fears on homeward streets

- Maya Angelou



I felt guilty for drowning in Johnny Depp's charms and rattling on and on about it when to date, almost 23,000 have died because of the great quake and the tsunamis in South Asia. I feel for these people because I know how helpless Filipinos are going to feel if we were in their shoes. We don't have high tech tsunami warning systems, we don't have vast amount of resources for disaster relief and due to our population, natural disaster is usually equated with many casualties.



On one hand, I'm thankful for the Lord for sparing us further grief brought about by natural disaster because I believe we already had our fair share in the last few months. And on the other, I praying for those affected by the quake and the tsunamis.



(And still I would like to take note that I doubly felt guilty because here I am, writing romantic drabbles to continue my fiction, and worrying about the additional two pounds I gained over the weekend, when thousands of people in Asia are suffering.)