Drown

Good morning day
Sorry I’m not there
But all my favourite friends
Vanished in the air
It’s hard to fly
when you can’t even run
Once I had the world,
but now I’ve got no one

-Three Days Grace

I watch the images of bodies piling up... parents, children, siblings, lovers, friends. Some of them were going about their daily routine, working, cooking, going to school, taking a crap. Others were celebrating a wedding, or a birthday, and others yet were maybe mourning at a funeral. Some people were in hospitals undergoing heart surgery, or giving birth. Then there were the sun-worshipers planning their itinerary to figure out how best to spend their hard-earned vacation or honeymoon. Their day came to an abrupt halt, as everything else fell away and they had to face the most climactic, cataclysmic, apocalyptic moment in their lives! If we take one single moment, and try to picture ourselves in their place at that exact moment. Try to go through all the thoughts, emotions and utterly terrible chaos that they lived through. The magnitude of their loss. The complete and devastating helplessness they must have felt as their loved ones were whisked away like flotsam, engulfed, digested by the roiling ocean. Thousands of kilometres away, we are celebrating our holiday season and planning a crazy night on the town for New Year’s. Let’s all say a prayer to all those who are suffering the loss of a loved one and let’s give them hope by helping the only way we can, donate to a relief agency like the Red Cross...

Happy New Year everybody