It is here or there ?
Life can be so so fragile at times, death seems to be something inevitable. There is this saying in chinese that goes “coffin are meant for dead people not for old or young people”. Estimated there are nearly 200k death tolls in the Haiti earthquake and sad to say it could be much more due to the after shock when food run lows , when clean water become sacred , medicine become rare and sickness level increases. Among the 200k death , there are young to old people , poor to rich , sick to healthy , thin to fat , short to tall so in short death don’t discriminate.
Then few days ago another tragedy happened back in my hometown , Penang. A dragon boat training by students from CLHS turns to tragedy after the vessel they are on went capsized. It recorded 6 deaths including a teacher advisor who is on his first training. It is such a great loss because we never know what they might achieve if somehow they were given the chance that never came.
One of them might be able to change the world , one of them might create an new invention to improve the world , one of them might be a world champion , one of the might be our Prime Minister but it is something no one will know now because they are no longer here. I am sure that they will be deeply miss by everyone around them.
This incident reminds me of my own incident that nearly cost me my own life which I sort of wrote in more details in Looking back when shit nearly happens . Thinking back, rough sea can be very scary no matter how good a swimmer you are. It just want to suck you into it just like those MLM leeches out there ( I am not talking about those hardworking MLM people but those leeches ), once they get you just wouldn’t want to let go. It was definately a terrible experience back then but I am very thankful to God that He decided to keep me alive even though at times I doubted Him.
I am not very sure me being here is it a blessing or a curse because I totally believe that those that passes on will be in a much better place right now but I do believe while we are still here we all should just live our life to the fullest and make our current place a better place for you and people around you.
My deepest condolences to all the family members of the deceased in Penang and also in Haiti.
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