Closing the eyes against red lights

The moment you feed yourself in the illusion that a human being is unbeatable, she emerges from nowhere to show the frailty of human life. When one thinks the land he treads on is better than the other territories, she drops down the curtain in a moment of violence, and makes you realize that, nothing in this world is invincible, except the nature herself.
The Pacific Ocean tsunami that took the world by a storm and rendered thousands of families destitute only proved that Mother Nature is not at all happy with the way things are moving forward. The post-tsunami nuclear crisis that was declared in Japan sent around shock waves that were even more dangerous than the tidal waves, expected by so many countries after the massive tremor. Even though, the life in our cozy little isle was not so much disturbed, nobody could escape the dark shadows it threw of the Boxing Day tsunami. Perhaps it must have been why we could empathize with the Japanese so easily. The lives that were lost, the houses that were swept away, the families who lost their loved ones and the nuclear plants that were irreparably damaged by the waves symbolize only a speck of what one would expect if the destruction to nature continues in the same proportions.
The magnitude of the disaster was such that Japan, a land where occurrence of earthquakes is not an abnormal phenomenon, is still struggling to come to terms with reality and take wholistic remedies to put an end to the nuclear threat that is being faced by the world today.
Natural disasters leave us with so many questions. People will keep questioning why those who died in the disaster had to die and how safe is safe enough. There may be so many scientific explanations emerging as to why the prevalence of natural disasters is getting higher and higher. And they might not even see wounding the nature is one such reason.
Barely two minutes after the editorial was flooded with the news of the tsunami, my mobile phone had no rest from the relatives who live down south. Lost in the hullabaloo of the editorial peak hours, I kept myself thinking whether we took Chief Seattle too lightly when he said the life on earth is one big web and man is only a small strand in it. His words must have become worn-out with over-quoting, but those who quoted him had failed to highlight what he was trying to warn us about; the fact that we are only a tiny part of nature but not a force above her and even a little piece of polythene we throw on the ground can contribute to generate destruction.
The birth of earth has so many explanations; whether it was a gradual process or a divine creation, it doesn’t make much difference. The death of earth will have only one explanation, that is you and I failed to look after her the way we ought to have done.