in the last 2, 3 years, how many people have been lost to natural disasters? earthquakes in iran, and now pakistan, the tsunami in the south east, even katrina and rita. how many "small" disasters have their been like katrina? that would add up the numbers very quickly. sad thing is, the earthquake in iran, now this earthquake in pakistan, they are forgotten and not felt...at least by me and i fear many of my peers. we see it on the medio like we see death on the movies. i am desensitized. we morned, and forgot the tsunami. how many thousands, if not millions of people have we lost in an instant moment, and we never morned their death, felt their impact or life, that was snuffed out in the blink of an eye by a devistating natural disaster? it is a shame. it is exploiting their life when we view it casually on the news or our ccn.com and then talk about it in our little coffee shops for conversation and classrooms, and go on without thinking and live our vanity and materialism, i am guilty nonetheless the same.

while we read about bird flus in the medio causing pandemics...not epidemics, pandemics. have we lost the amount of people in moments that we could lose with this flu????? yet we never feared their death or felt their loss. i wonder if we could lose more in seconds to natural disasters to that flu...will we forget the millions lost to the natural disaster in the last year, and coming years and fear those that might perish by a flu? it is like we are being taken off guard. we are lookin and fearing this one thing, while we are being killed by something we don't even see.

this doesn't even account for the millions that die of hunger, thirst, curable disease, aids, cancer...our own hands. those accounts will pale in comparrison any bird or natural disaster.

we don't fear the loss of millions of people. we fear the invisble that we can see.