I was shocked when I heard the news that Japan was hit by 8.9 magnitude earthquake causing tsunamis that sent a wave filled with boats and houses toward land last Friday (March 11, 2011). When I was able to look at the news, it reminds me with the movie “2012.” Tsunami swiped out the north east of Japan. I asked myself “Is it already the end of the world?” I don’t know where we are heading right now. Killings are everywhere. Typhoon and other forms of calamities are already at hand even to places where it couldn't possibly occur. Unbelievable but true. What happen to the world? Are we still safe? What do we expect? These are questions popping my mind and maybe yours too. Sometimes we cannot understand why these things take place so as why people keep on destroying our mother Earth (as if I’m not guilty). Are we building a better world for the future generations or are we preparing them for future hazards?
The common reason why people suffer is that people wanted it to come about. There are so many things that we may forget while satisfying our personal interests. I’ve learned that normally individual is bound with personal interest. What we are doing is for self-satisfaction. This interest may not be morally right but this is what people feel satisfaction. Satisfaction is not objective instead very subjective and so we cannot say that there is an exact end result or cause why people act this way or why he/she have done that way. Sometimes even we knew from the very start that what we act is actually bad we are forced to do it because this is where our satisfaction will be met. It’s very hard to fight against ourselves. And worse, we couldn’t help to control ourselves. Then, we become self-centered. And because we are self-centered we don’t care about others. We don’t care the environment as long as we are satisfied.
I don’t know if it’s too late to do something about our mother nature. But as long as we are alive there is still hope as the song “Habang May Buhay’ would tell. We can at least minimize the effects of climate change. It’s only a matter of choosing what, when, where and how you can do it in simple ways which may not require a lot of political will. I admit we cannot avoid nature’s commotion but we can minimize the effect of it. At least we have done our part. The key is “START NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.” Do not wait anybody would do it for us. Do not wait if the government would ask your help. I expect your cooperation as early as NOW. Let’s build our WORLD for the better and brighter future. We only have one EARTH to live with and it is very empirical to preserve it.
PDIS