Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Quake

I can't believe what has been happening to the world within the last year and a half. Fire, floods, pestilence, earthquakes, hurricane...
During the last several decades, I don't remember having heard so numerous a disaster news, plus experiencing two major hurricanes myself last summer.
Now the two major subcontinent plates have crashed into each other, destroying a good portion of the towns and cities in Asia.
The news was: A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border Saturday reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and flattened an apartment building. The toll, which can rise to tens of thousands, included 250 girls who died when their school in northwestern Pakistan collapsed.
Such a tragedy! I am sure humanity will rise again and give a hand to those who were hurt so badly. Maybe all this will show us, once more, how dependent we are on each other on this planet, since I believe there is always a good side to the worst of things.