Regarding Haiti

Though you already know, a catastrophe has occured in Haiti a few days ago in which an earthquake shook the area near the country's capital of Port-au-Prince. This earthquake was one big bitch, being at a huge intensity that took down nearly everything. The number of deaths is somewhere around 50,000 people. You have to be one cold son of a bitch not to feel bad when you hear something like that. Since then a charity campaigns or services have come out of the woodwork to help the people in need down there. President Obama himself has initiated American action in the aid of Haiti already (and how the fuck long did Bush wait before sending help to New Orleans?) Currently the Haitian people are doing what anyone else would do after such a tragedy: they bury their dead and they rebuild, because that is the way of humans.

The previous decade had a wealth of tragedies, natural or otherwise, that brought a lot of pain to the world and shaped it to be what it is now (9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Tsunamis, the California fires, maybe Global Warming, as well as earthquakes). I guess it was nature's way of saying Happy New Year by destroying something else. Maybe it's a sign that we should wake up and stop pilliging our land and polluting our air, if we want to be green about this. Though I don't generally believe in the fuck with nature-nature fucks with you theory, one must keep an open mind.

I just felt like a total asshole for not saying something about this, like immediately. It was a bad week for me, but no way am I comparing my week to the one Haiti had. I could never imagine that kind of suffering and loss, it's completely heartbreaking. I keep the people of Haiti in my heart and mind and hope for their gradual recovery as all should also hope.

This has been condolences from Your Modest Guru. Thanks for reading.