Today is a disastrous day in so many ways. The devastation in Haiti is, for the moment, over-shadowing all the other natural disasters of late. Soon it fall off the airwaves prematurely, just like so many other events. It will be pushed aside for something closer to home, some star will die or commit adultery.
This event has collided (in my world) with the death of a close friend. This loss serves to remind me that so many others are suffering so much more than me. One cannot fathom the impact of this loss of life, just like one cannot fathom the loss of one life, not from another's perspective.
When so many suffer and it is so far removed from society that we barely pause, barely recognize the number of lives, of souls that have just collapsed it pains me; it hurts me, sort of paralyzes my mind. To have this sort of loss of life coupled with the death of one of the kindest, most genuine men I've ever know, well it just overwhelms me, knocks me to the floor. How many others are mourning the loss of the kindest man that they ever knew in Haiti or in the rest of the world?
Yet at the same moment, how many are rejoicing to hear the cry of new life coming into this world? The amount of suffering and joy happening at any given moment is simply unfathomable. It leaves me wondering why I deserve to feel the many things that I feel, to experience this glorious and painful life. It leaves me baffled. It leaves me thankful to experience the varied moments of life.
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