Monday, January 24, 2005
Looking back Dec 26th 2004
This is in someway an important post for me(this is my first). I have always wanted to start everything very optimistically but for us this New Year wasn't so. Thanks to Tsunami. Its has left its mark which is going to stay for a long long time etched in our life.
So I start this from Dec 26th. Since it was Christmas I was at Thanjavur which is my home town. I was planning a trip to Velankanni on the 26th as it was also a Sunday. My habit of late-rising saved me. I didn't not understand the impact till 27th evening when I was coming back to Bangalore by train when I had a chance to speak to some of the survivors.
They have seen so much on those two days that their own loss was not bothering them. A middle aged man near me mentioned "we are all fine except my uncle and his son"(they were washed away in front of him). It was a flat statement without any emotions. My jaw dropped. Two waves(if I am right) is what has taken to change the lives of thousands of people. See how powerful our mother Nature is!
Whatever has happened, one thing is for sure. This has sure made me sit and think what life has given me and when will it ask for the same in return. This has made me love my life. Whatever I do!
More to come on Tsunami in Tamil Nadu.
So I start this from Dec 26th. Since it was Christmas I was at Thanjavur which is my home town. I was planning a trip to Velankanni on the 26th as it was also a Sunday. My habit of late-rising saved me. I didn't not understand the impact till 27th evening when I was coming back to Bangalore by train when I had a chance to speak to some of the survivors.
They have seen so much on those two days that their own loss was not bothering them. A middle aged man near me mentioned "we are all fine except my uncle and his son"(they were washed away in front of him). It was a flat statement without any emotions. My jaw dropped. Two waves(if I am right) is what has taken to change the lives of thousands of people. See how powerful our mother Nature is!
Whatever has happened, one thing is for sure. This has sure made me sit and think what life has given me and when will it ask for the same in return. This has made me love my life. Whatever I do!
More to come on Tsunami in Tamil Nadu.
// posted by JVC @ Monday, January 24, 2005 
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