2005: A Year of Tragedy

I don't know if it is just because I'm an "adult" now, but it seems 2005 was pretty rocky.  When I think back over all the world events the hit us and try to ponder the lives lost.



If you stretch back to Christmas 2004 you have the Idonesia tsunami... hundreds of thousands killed.  Then as you go in to 2005,  Katrina wipes out New Orleans.  The war in Iraq claims over 40,000 civilian casualties. Terrorists bomb London.   Earth quakes in Pakastan wipe out entire villages.  Israel evacuates the Gaza Strip amid rampant violence and conflict.  And in Africa millions die silently, nearly unacknowledged by the west, of AIDS.



With so much it is hard to fathom what a person can do.  How do you answer a million voices all asking "why?"  The scope is so overwhelming as to be paralyzing.  Even an entire nations resource could not prevent these events from happening.  But we can not be silent or passive.  We must all seek to be aware of the world.  The day we ignore these events while the world suffers will be the first day of an inevidable revolution.  But worse, it will be a sad day for human nature.



I don't know what I can do.  I give a little when I can to Red Cross.  I try to be helpful to those in my reach.  Maybe if we can just all help a little.  But whatever we can do, we can never ignore these events.  Never say, "well it's not me" or "they are so far away".  People are people every where.  Even angry people love someone.   Even when it seems the help is too little or underappreciated, keep trying.