2011's Reality

We all know what happened in Japan last week, and if you don’t know by now I think I may be a little concerned about your priorities in this life.

Japan was struck by an 8.9 earthquake, so big that it managed to move Japan 8 feet and sent 10 meter high waves heading straight for people’s homes. When looking at clips and pictures of what happened, it almost seems unreal. To think that while this was happening I was comfortably dry behind my desk, listening to music and watching what was happening in a country that is 12, 756.41KM away from my home.

The shock factor here is that this can happen to you.

 As humans we are programmed from childhood to believe that we are invincible. That nothing can touch us, let alone kill us and more importantly, that anything horrifying will never happen to us. Let me clear this up for you in one short breath: You are NOT that special.

If you manage to stay alive until the age of 90, don’t consider yourself to be a super-hero who magically managed to dodge the harsh hand of karma, rather say it for what it is. You were lucky.

It breaks my heart to see thousands of people experience terror, loss, confusion, anguish, pain and all this within a split second. Yet, I’ve realized that some people react differently to this news and say that ‘Japan deserved it’, ‘Karma’s a bitch’, ‘Serves you right for bombing Pearl Harbor’, ‘That’s what they get for allowing sex slaves in their country and killing innocent animals’.

And to these people I say: Go fuck yourselves you ignorant bastards; it should be you in Japan experiencing what they are dealing with right now and not them. No nation deserves even the smallest speck of Mother Nature’s wrath. No present nation should be held accountable for what happened in the past – people have already died for that cause, I don’t understand why you need to blame more innocent deaths on something that has already been accounted for. No nation should suffer for what the rest of the world is guilty of. Slavery of any kind happens everywhere you turn; sometimes right under your nose’s and it’s you people who are more often to blame for being the ones who turn your heads away. Every nation on this planet is to be held responsible for rapes, slavery, murders, slaughters, riots, crimes, wars and all the other hellishly evil acts out there – not just Japan. You want to say that innocent people deserve to die because of what they do to animals. The reality is that you freely purchase these items from retail stores from all over the world without a seconds thought to what you so proudly declare you “stand for”.

Can you not picture for just a moment what it would be like waking up on what could be your very last morning. Can you not imagine for just a moment what it would be like not knowing if the people you love are safe and not dead. Can you envision for just a moment the chaos that would surround you in a moment like this. Can you perceive the life you worked so hard to grow and nurture be swept away in one swift moment as if you didn’t exist at all. Is that still not wrenching a speck of emotion from your black hearts? 

Then picture this:

The person you’d give your soul to save is dead.

The children you would die for are dead.

Your house is now a collection of splintered wood.

Everything you own that makes you feel empowered is gone.

Your animals that fight to protect you are dead.

Your friends who claim to love you so proudly are dead, dying or unaccounted for.

You are basically living in a world where no one knows you. 

You don’t exist. 

You are nothing.

Nothing!

This is a tragic time where we should learn to understand and accept that we are not invincible. It is a time where we should come together as one community, not split up by gender, age, language, race and beliefs – this is the one time that we should be fighting for each other and not against each other.

I pity the fools who think they are better than the people struggling and dying right now.

I pity the fools who think that this was deserved.

I pity the fools who think that someone will save them when their turn comes.