California Fire

Mother Nature is on a rampage, it is surely a sad but very humbling experience. A lot of lessons can be learnt from this, each chapter of her lesson is very intense and extreme and significantly those lessons are endless. It is quite depressing to see her being so relentless, unfortunately we will soon but conveniently ignore those lessons learnt when life returns to ‘normalcy’.

She chased away many people from their shelter, they had to run for their life to find a safe shelter. I was looking at the people at Qualcomm stadium, a lot of people were living in substandard living style as compared to where they were before. They do not have the comfort of their million dollar home, they do not have the A/C or Heater that they had before, their credit cards cannot buy them the food that they need, their next day is still uncertain BUT they all are united, they are still cheerful, they are helping each other, they are very happy. “Do humans need adversity of such a magnitude to bring the humanness in them ? We become adverse to humanness when things are normal” It is really pathetic that we are in such a state, unfortunately lessons learnt like these will be lost in a few days or weeks from now. Most of the people in there will soon become the self-centered person they once were when things become ‘normal’. “We forget about others when comfort STRIKES us, we only feel for others when tragedy STRIKES”. If only we can think about others when we are comfortable, how good this whole world would be ?

The similarity between the earth and today’s Qualcomm stadium ends just in its shape ! The rest of the ‘normal’ world is just negated to the Qualcomm stadium with respect to thoughts and actions. Once the fire is stopped, the stadium will be opened to this world and the humanness in the stadium will be gone !

If only, humans learn to be so kind, united and helpful during happier times, this world would be a bigger Qualcomm stadium. We have become so much immune to this thought that we strongly believe that it is not possible, ‘me, myself and I’ plays a major role and we tend to forget the lessons learnt until we have one more catastrophe of this magnitude.

Lesson Learnt: Let us persistently be humans ‘even’ during ‘normal’ times !