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Helping Haiti: A Thank You
ByAyngel on Jan 21, 2010 | In Life and living | Send feedback »
Haiti isn't far from anyone's minds right now no matter what you are doing it hovers right there at the back of your mind. It is just so senseless, it is hard to be reminded that sometimes life doesn't make sense... and death never does.
When something so incomprehensible happens I always loose faith in life just a little. I think all of us do, at least to some extent. It's hard to believe in the goodness in life when something so incredibly bad can happen without notice.
Then I see people so moved by the plight of a stranger that they offer help in whatever way they can, and my faith in life returns a little. Life feels a little more solid. When people find a place in their hearts for someone they have never, and probably will never meet, when for a moment they do not see the differences, they see the commonality, then life seems a little less senseless.
It always amazes me when something so beautiful can grow out of something so indescribably ugly. Nothing we can do can give the people of Haiti what they have lost. Behind all of the death tolls and damage estimates are real people. Countless numbers of real people, human beings just like us. Just like any of us.
As ugly as it is, tragedy teaches us that no matter who we call enemy, no matter who we call friend, deep down we are all human, and no matter who you are pain still hurts.
As ugly as life can sometimes be, that beauty is there too. We create that beauty when we look past ourselves and reach out to a stranger.
For each and every one of you that has done something to help the people of Haiti, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you.
Thank You.
