CHAOS IN A SNAP

Turn on your television and see catastrophe after catastrophe affecting millions of people in different countries. Calamities of different kinds disturbs normalcy of life. Storm in Europe, floods, tsunami alerts even here in Asia…but the most devastating is the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile that is most probably the focus of most at present.

Imagine lives lost and lives affected. The very term that’s been kept repeated by anchormen that pierces the heart is “desperation”. As if everything stopped for them, no electricity, no water, no food…no everything. There’s report of looting, but then what do you expect in such a chaotic world? It probably is expected to see people take whatever necessity they see since they have nothing left and is just out in the open for them to take.

Thus, let us be thankful that we are blessed enough to be sitting home, safe with our family. And we can share more than just our pity and empathy…

WRONG TIMING

This is supposed to be a season to be jolly…but tragic events do not make it such for everyone. How can you celebrate the end of the year and welcome the coming 2010 when you lost your house and everything you have saved for in a fire? Or the life of your love one/s has been taken away during the flash flood and landslide? Or of the possibility of such tragedy is within reach as you see Mayon volcano’s impending eruption?

It really is a wrong timing, but death and devastation has no right timing. It is heartbreaking to see lives lost by the bundle either due to natural disasters or man made evilness. What we can do is to extend help in whatever way we can, financial or out-reach programs, or even just your presence to the handling out of goods from donations. That’s what ABS-CBN Sagip Kapamilya have done and have been doing since typhoon Ondoy.

Have a heart to share as you celebrate the season of giving.