Tsunami Crisis- WILL TO LIVE

Over 100,000 people have already lost their lives and numerous are missing. The waves have even swept away with them ‘The Indira Point’- the southern most point of the Indian Territory.

The ones who have lost their dear ones are still to find themselves time to realize this horrible game of nature. Their shock, grief and despair cannot be put in words.
As one of the victims who lost his family in tsunami waves and had almost died, when asked about his feelings on his new life, said,” This is a second chance given to me, a new life but what use of it when I’ve lost all I’ve ever lived for”, a lot of people shook their heads in agreement.
We may be shocked and shaken by this calamity, but what we need to understand is that all the victims have gone through something we can’t imagine in our wildest nightmares. And of course, one needs to live through all this to actually realize the true worth of life and the victims’ shock, grief, despair and most of all, pain and loss.
There is this story of one of the victims’, I came across and realized (though, not completely, I’m sure) what one can do to live, live in the world so dire.
A man was having his tea, while the world was changing, while so many people were clinging on to something on the other to save their lives and many had given up, were dead and were lost forever into perpetuity. Little did he know of the time that was coming up for him, of the circumstances he was going to be in. He was going to be one of the victims of the most disastrous earthquake in recent history.
Suddenly, he heard something breaking into his house and before he realized what it was, it was too late. Sometime later, when he gained back his conscious, he found himself on a treetop in the company of a panther. However, the panther left after sometime. He jumped off the tree, only to find himself standing on a dead body. He immediately climbed the tree and remained there for 2-3 days. In those 2-3 days, he survived on his urine and also, licked his wounds.
That man, by the way, was quite well educated.
Even the thought of the above, sickens us. They say ’with every difficulty, comes courage’. But to survive through such circumstances, a lot more than courage is required.
What is most important, in my opinion, is the will to live.
Till my next post it's AKANKSHA signing off.