If there is one thing certain in this world, my friends, it is that crisis will strike from time to time. I don’t know why the world is designed in such a way. If there is God, he surely has an odd sense of humor.
I stared at the newspaper in disbelief after reading an article about the killing flu sometime ago. Not because of the disease itself; it had caused so much buzz in my workplace that I had thought of it as a coffee companion. What saddened me is that it had infected at least two infants and had taken the life of one. I know that was nothing new. Everyday children are dying from any sorts of reasons you can think of. But isn’t it funny how a case or two sometimes strike us more than the others? And to me, it is even more interesting to see that how it is in this kind of situation human nature is truly revealed.
It was depressing that the news didn’t mention anything about how people sympathized with these victims or their family. No, nobody talked about how heartbreaking it was to lose innocent souls. What’s highlighted was how sad Edgar Hernandez’s mother felt because some people started condemning her son as if he was responsible for the calamity. It seemed people actually hated him for surviving the disease. I wasn’t very surprised, although there was some “what the fuck?” moment.
It always amazed me how people always choose the easy way out when faced with difficult situations. A new disease breaks out, and no, it doesn’t really matter how we should support each other to overcome the crisis. That can wait. Let’s FIRST find out who started this. Let’s blame somebody. Let’s curse the some people for spreading the virus. (No, we don’t care that they might be the first to contract the disease because they are too poor to have decent standard of living.) Why? Because it’s the easiest thing to do! We are too used to taking the easy way out in life that it has been part of our nature. Aren’t some of us focus so hard on our religion’s ritual only because the essence is just too damned hard to follow?
Well, I guess the recent crisis has unnecessarily distraught me more than it really should. However, thanks to my unhealthy thinking habit, it also had taught me and made me reflect a lot. It made me look at certain things that might not even pass through my mind during normal circumstances. Such as how depressingly materialistic and apathetic human has become these days. In Mexico, a man cried, “It is easy to close the shop. But what shall we eat?”. Here on the brighter side of the earth, some men with full bellies enslave themselves for more money, ready to sacrifice even their humanity. And no, still no empathy for the less fortunate. I can’t see, my friends, why you’re not depressed.
Ah, if only the meek will really inherit the earth…
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I know this is not a good entry. I myself hate some of what I wrote in those hideous paragraphs. And I actually have much more to share. But I have too many randomly related things on my mind and I am desperate to write something. On a lighter note, I have replenished my Corona supply =)
Nice entry, I like it! A good reminder indeed
*ga tahan pengen nulis lagi hihi*
We live in a society of backward thinking, Cath, which is very pathetic. Guess what, I am currently attending a conference about Ayn Rand’s philosophy (Objectivism) and I must say meeting those people has resurrected the hope of mankind within me. There exist people who do have the right values and way of thinking and actually pursue them consistently in their lives.
And I envy you for having time to write
. Maybe I should start again hehehe…. I almost never wrote anything since I came to MIT.
Thank you for commenting
I try hard to write as often as possible, although the new job sucks the energy out of me 
Yes, you should start again, and let’s promise ourselves to give birth to a book first, then a baby 
whoaa we should definitely keep in touch again. if you know my name, my e-mail is [first name][dot][middle name] [at] gmail [dot] com.
I still remember when I finally found you after a long search for Serviam’s chief editor
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I also always have a secret wish (well not so secret anymore hihi) to write a book. But my study here doesn’t even give me enough time to read, to my dismay.
I quoted a paragraph of your writing into my newest blog post. I couldn’t think of any better way to say them and even if I tried to do it any differently, I couldn’t convey the meaning any better. I hope you don’t mind. I’ve credited you and you are more than welcome to take a look at it. Cheers.