Monday, March 15, 2010

“Are there any donations for people left devastated after their "lifequakes"?”

Earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacing the ground. When a large earthquake epicenter is located offshore, the seabed sometimes suffers sufficient displacement to cause a tsunami.

You will get to know about any terrible earthquakes that have occurred in the world from the breaking news, from the newspapers and Internet. But you will never get any information from the same sources about the amount of desperate people affected by "lifequakes".

Unfortunately, lifequakes also consist of different magnitudes. There are some with magnitude 3, mostly imperceptible. They can be worries, disappointments or misunderstandings and stresses. And there are more dangerous and serious magnitude 7, ones with consequences over larger areas of people's lives. It could be losses, depressions or diseases and as a result, can lead to endemic sicknesses or even suicides.

Different "lifequakas" are happen in our lives on daily basis. And you could become a reporter of our own story only if you wanted to. Most of the time people don’t like to talk about their problems or don’t ask for help, some of them don’t even have a person to talk to. It can be a nightmare scenario. Imagine, you are screaming in the dark and there is no one to switch on the light...

So, here's what you can do: be more attentive to people around you and be sure that you have taken actions to any calls of help. Make yourself helpful to somebody!
Be able to donate your care, your words, your generosity without anything in return.

An easy start is to pick up the phone and to call your parents, your grandparents, or your old friend to whom you promised to call ages ago, write an e-mail to someone who is awaiting a news from you.

Just remember: “Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still”
(Lou Erickson)

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