Tragedy of life
Life passes by very quickly. At times many of us undergo a
series of unexpected tragedies all at the same time. For a favourite colleague
of mine Paulita and her husband Adrian, it was one such time during last year.
A cancer fighter, her condition aggravated and she had to
undergo a series of major treatment.
She was recovering and it was at that time the natural
tragedy happened and her entire village was destoyed. Along with it 18 of their
immediate relatives!
Massive efforts were coordinated by her forgetting her own
health condition to rehabilitate those who survived.
Time passed by quickly and it is time for her to go back on
leave.
It is at this time she is feeling the magnitude of what
happened. With houses yet to complete and essential facilities still not
reconstructed, life is not going to be easy for some time.
In a way when we look at things happening in our life, it is
true that all good things can be destroyed in a flash but to reconstruct the
goodwill it is never easy and requires lot of hard work, determination,
dedication and sustained effort.
I take this opportunity to salute all good human beings like
Paulita who do selfless efforts forgetting their own personal hardship.
Ramesh Menon
Short Take, Gulf Today 9 August 2014
To read it in original, please visit Gulf Today online.
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