Damaged

And so it happened again. 19 October 2007, around 1:30pm, Glorietta2 was hit by unconfirmed bomb-like blast, killing few people and left several wounded. This tragic event did not only devastate the place, but more importantly the lives of the victims and families they left behind.

I paused. I thought, what was I doing that same time? I was in my home, lying on the carpet, so bored I don't know how creatively I can kill time. I was on sick leave for almost a week but I know for sure I can recuperate and welcome another challenging days to come. But these people, seemingly clueless of what to happen, only thought of having lunchbreak with friends in the mall, or maybe will just pick up something in a store, or simply wants a cool breeze and mosey around, will never see another sunshine, or traffic jam, or christmas lights beaming every city streets by this time.

Every time this kind of disaster happens, I would always give myself a short serious cognition. How can someone yield to such violence? How can some radical people equate love and loyalty on their faith to fatal blitz? Why do they need to claim lives and dreams when they long for justice from an unexplainable complaint? I came to a point where pondering is truly meaningless. These terrorisms (if it is), the people behind it, and their beliefs are far wide enough to comprehend and deal with. While they cry to do that out of love, loyalty, chivalry, or even faith, I think of them more as adhering to a fallacy of having an intrepid spirit with a depraved soul. I will never ever find any angle of depths to their claimed act of valiancy or religious heroism for that matter. And I am just so glad my god is a God of Life.

Now, there is no other way than moving forward. Yes, it is painful and heavy, to all the witnesses of traumatic tragedy and loved ones of the victims. But despite distraiting memories, God has provided us the panacea for all these deep pains and hurts - prayers. Trust that God is always in control of things beyond ours and blessings will surely come to those who remain faithful to Him. And that is true faith.

My sincere prayers to all the victims and their families.