Earthquake Turkey and Syria

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Photo credit: Online pic.

The earthquake that came to life and took the lives of more than 43,000 people in Turkey and Syria is a wake-up call. We are not in control, despite all the gadgets that regulate when we wake up, eat and go to work. Parents work to put food on the table.

The last thing on their minds is an apartment building shaking then collapsing the table and those around it. The possibility of bodies that can never be recovered doesn’t cross their minds because we live for today and take tomorrow for granted.

We are not in control, despite all the science and technology. Example. Rescue teams found a baby in the rubble, a good reminder that we don’t know anything, nothing at all. How is that possible? Did the parents survive? If not, who will tell the adult baby how the parents died? No amount of tears can comfort survivors.

We pretend to cry for Turkey and Syria because it’s not nature that kills thousands of poor people for religion, political ambition, border expansion and to grab natural resources that belong to other countries. Nature has no choice. It provides life in the form of water and air. It also takes life. That’s why there are earthquakes, volcanoes and floods. Men don’t have to kill. They just want to.

The earthquake has killed more than 43,000 people and still counting. How many Canadians, Americans and British have been killed in the hidden World War 3, between NATO and Russia? Ukraine is just a proxy. Don’t shed crocodile tears for Turkey and Syria.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

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