Overcoming Natural Disasters
(A discussion on Leonard Pitts’ article, Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel)
Over the course of the reigning of the earth, natural disasters have seemed to overcome man, both physically and emotionally. Natural disasters have been extremely traumatizing and damaging since the beginning of time. In Pitts’ article, he describes the terrible and saddening country of Haiti and the extremes that the people of that island have to go through. The devastation as other countries watch the wretchedly poor get hammered once again, stuck in the recurring cycles of reality. Is the planet conspiring against small, humble nations? Why are the most vulnerable hit over and over? Whether it is a higher power, or the earth being earth, …show more content…
This alone is asking a lot of the traumatized communities. Haiti alone has been hit so many times by disasters, that over the course of twenty years, more than 100,000 lives have been lost and more homes destroyed than one can comprehend. How is a community expected to rebuild when they are aware that the very thing could happen all over again? There is no other option. As quoted in the text, “Dig out. Weep and mourn. Memorialize the dead. Rebuild. Go on. This is the price of being human. And also, arguably, the noblest expression. Show the world once again a stubborn insistence on living, despite all the cruelties of the earth.” Sadly, the Haitians have become so terribly practiced at this task. In order to move on with life, the rebuilding process must take place no matter how hard and disheartening it may be. It has not become a coincidence, but a way of life for these people stuck in such poverty. Every individual life is given different trials, and these people have had to recognize that this major trial is theirs to overcome and handle with a strong
(A discussion on Leonard Pitts’ article, Sometimes, the Earth is Cruel)
Over the course of the reigning of the earth, natural disasters have seemed to overcome man, both physically and emotionally. Natural disasters have been extremely traumatizing and damaging since the beginning of time. In Pitts’ article, he describes the terrible and saddening country of Haiti and the extremes that the people of that island have to go through. The devastation as other countries watch the wretchedly poor get hammered once again, stuck in the recurring cycles of reality. Is the planet conspiring against small, humble nations? Why are the most vulnerable hit over and over? Whether it is a higher power, or the earth being earth, …show more content…
This alone is asking a lot of the traumatized communities. Haiti alone has been hit so many times by disasters, that over the course of twenty years, more than 100,000 lives have been lost and more homes destroyed than one can comprehend. How is a community expected to rebuild when they are aware that the very thing could happen all over again? There is no other option. As quoted in the text, “Dig out. Weep and mourn. Memorialize the dead. Rebuild. Go on. This is the price of being human. And also, arguably, the noblest expression. Show the world once again a stubborn insistence on living, despite all the cruelties of the earth.” Sadly, the Haitians have become so terribly practiced at this task. In order to move on with life, the rebuilding process must take place no matter how hard and disheartening it may be. It has not become a coincidence, but a way of life for these people stuck in such poverty. Every individual life is given different trials, and these people have had to recognize that this major trial is theirs to overcome and handle with a strong