Haiti

Yesterday, disaster struck the island of Haiti. My complete lack of geographic knowledge had me temporarily worried about my brothers and sister who are currently on a cruise somewhere out in the Carribean. But, after looking at a map, I swiftly realized my worries were unnecessary. However, watching the continuing coverage of the havoc wreaked by this earthquake is absolutely heartbreaking. Children unable to find their mothers, wives unable to find their husbands, the deathtoll too massive to begin to estimate (though they have said there could be hundreds of thousands). So many people losing not only the people they love, but the world they've come to know itself. The immensity of it all is overwhelming, it's hard to imagine what must be going through the minds of the survivors. What's left after all your physical holds on the world have disappeared? The only answer I can think of is hope. I think Oscar Wilde put it best when he said, "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." When your whole world is turned upside down and nothing seems to make sense anymore, you are really only left with two options. You cave, wallow in the surreal devastation that surrounds you OR you keep on keeping on and never give up hope that your world can come back to some semblance of happiness or normalcy. For the citizens of Haiti, I hope the survivors find the strength to hold on to their hope through the coming months of recovery.