where were you, when mother earth twitched in her sleep?

i have been watching and hearing people talking of tsunami and its effect on humans, i have seen grief being expressed, i have even seen silence from people,i have seen people who have let it slip out of their mind already.

the enormity of the tragedy strikes one and one is dumbstruck as to what one's reactions should be or has to be. or should one react at all.

then i heard a master talk, he asked everyone present why we were upset?

humans have been ripping mother earth for last couple of centuries,she has been silently taking all the crap which we have been dishing out in the name of progress, and this on a daily basis. we stick drilling machines into her to suck out oil,gas, dig holes into her,cut her side to get out coal,diamonds ,gold etc and she has been keeping quite most of the time.

and you know what, the master is right.(funny this master looks younger than me and most probably is younger than me) does anyone cry that this has been happening for 100's of years.

when mother earth tries to, kind of, get comfortable and shift her position a little bit on her "chair", there is obviously going to be some effect, considering her size and our size, the effect is going to be really considerable. when this happens why do we cry?

remember mother earth has nothing against you or i. she does not know that we exist.to mother earth, in her hibernation of the past millions of years, the recent tsunami would not even qualify as a major burp, maybe just a tiny rumble in her belly.

are we angry at mother earth, i dont think so. is mother earth angry at us? i dont think so.

is it okay that we do not cry? i dont know. do we need to feel sad? i think yes. yes we need to feel sad that people have lost their lives.

we continue to lead our lives, waiting for the day when mother earth decides to get comfortable again.

in the mean time we need be considerate in what we do to her. one day she sure is going to wake up and shrug off the dust mites which live on her body. and it sure would not matter much to her what damage she causes during this time. everything is relative. to a person who lives millions of years , would the person even remember what happened in a 24 hour period.

like i noted in my first post, i am very lucid person,you can see that my above thoughts are so clear and neatly stated.

this is a note documenting thoughts which hopefully leads to catharsis.(this is the first time ever that i have felt the need to use this word)

p.s : i think i need to re-read conan doyle's "When the world screamed"