*knock on wood again*

This entry is probably a conjuction of the entry *knock on wood* - http://secret--lover.blogspot.com/2009/08/knock-on-wood.html

Prologue: Search Google for these strings to know more media details of this entry: "typhoon ondoy ketsana philippines manila september 26"
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Last Saturday, alot of lives were lost. Properties, crops, homes, and people's lives were destroyed at that fateful day. Thousands of families displaced, children have been missing. At the height of the calamity, some stood brave, some cowered inside their homes. But nonetheless, almost all were humbled by the unusually mighty storm, and we all knew what was going to happen when the aftermath comes - disaster in epic proportions.

I was one of those millions of people who got threatened by the calamity. I am very lucky to be here typing and updating my blog, and I thank God for giving me this chance to continue my life, and for keeping my family and community intact. I also thank Him for saving alot of people with his modern day heroes as His instruments (including an eighteen year old boy who saved more than thirty people, but couldn't save himself - see link below). I just wished they could have saved everybody.

Life is not exclusively about waking everyday, having your meals, going to work or school, being with your loved ones, and everything else that people normally do everyday. It is also not only about the past, how you have lived your life, your achievements, your embarassments, etc. It is also about the future, the direction you are taking, the dreams and especially the missions, whether they are long term or short term.

I am very concerned to those people who has lost their lives - who are going to be the people who will carry on to their missions? Who will continue catching their dreams? I perfectly understand that in most circumstances, it is virtually impossible to carry on a person's mission who just passed away. But that would be really unjust - you were sent here in this world for a purpose, and no one can fulfill that purpose if you died without fulfilling that purpose.

Especially that eighteen year old boy. As a young man, I am very sure he had a lot of dreams to chase. He had his own missions. But at that very moment, he stood still and thought of his fellowmen's lives first before his own. Before his dreams. Before his life mission. He helped more than thirty lives to go on and continue living and chasing dreams, for the cost of his own. Who will continue his legacy?

I thank God and the heavens above for giving me this chance on seeing the calm after the storm, for enduring the calamity and live to tell the tale about it. But most importantly, for helping me continue the mission this blog is all about, along with my dreams. I'd still want to chase my dreams, eventhough they seem unreachable. And I still want to live the day that I look at her face, telling her how much I am feeling for her, even if that would be the last day I'd be living.

Now that there are two incoming typhoons in the country. We better brace ourselves for these, and pray that they will not be as desctructive as the previous one.

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The story about the eighteen year old boy - http://www.theage.com.au/world/philippine-man-loses-own-life-after-saving-30-20090928-g8o4.html