March 11th marked the day when the world was reminded that we as humans do not call the shots on what we call planet earth. Perhaps mankind was getting too cocky and mother nature felt it was time to give us a wake up call and targeted one of the most developed countries in our world-Japan.
Images and news of the earthquake and tsunami has covered the papers every single day for the past week. The event shook the world and made time stop for a just a few precious minutes. It made us reflect on how small and useless we really are against our own natural planet, even with all our profound technology and developed knowledge. We can't outdo mother nature because we did not build it from our own hands nor do we have the right to try to control it. Japan's disaster is truly heart breaking and the people did not deserve it at all. When such a disaster occurs, what do we end up doing? Just watch the news? Cry? Just carry on with life? Its tough to admit how useless we really are. However, that doesn't stop us either which is something miraculous about mankind. We never give up and always push forward. Its sorta like an incurable disease.
Gaga has put out the rubber bands which have the symbolic colours of Japan and says both in Japanese and English, 'Pray for Japan'. Lola has Sakura cupcakes whereby all funds proceed towards Japan's Red Cross. They are sold at Selfridges at 5 quid per cupcake and denote the beautiful flowers of Spring which is when Sakura flowers are in full bloom. This is the season when everyone flocks to Japan to sit under the beautiful Sakura trees whilst sipping matcha tea, admiring the beauty of life-essentially nature's natural beauty. Which is ironic to what happened. It irks our hearts to uproar about the unfairness to Japan but realistically what we really can only do is to donate resources to affected areas and solemnly pray every night for them. Then surely enough, no matter how long it takes, the country and its people will find themselves as the Land of the Rising Sun once again.
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