This
weekend the UK is covered in yet another blanket of snow. In the south, where I live, it’s not been too
bad but the people in the north of England are really suffering. At least one person has lost their life and thousands
of homes are without power. Many roads
are impassable and many villages cut-off and running low on food. By day the snow is starting to melt, but the
icy temperatures at night cause wide-spread freezing and the roads will be
treacherous during the rush-hour on Monday morning. Of course, when the thaw starts in earnest we’ll
endure lots of flooding.
Now
I am well aware that this kind of weather is fairly run-of-the-mill in other
countries, but here in the UK we are just not equipped to deal with it. Any kind of adverse weather and the country
grinds to a halt.
What
does happen, though, is that in adversity people tend to stick together. They share, take strangers into their homes,
provide comfort and help to ease the suffering of their fellow man. Not everyone is like this of course – there will
always be the minority who are out for themselves, but thankfully they do tend
to be the minority. Random acts of
kindness are being carried out all over the country at the moment.
But
it does make me wonder why it takes adverse conditions and natural disasters to
bring out the humanity in people. What
is so difficult about helping others every day of our lives? We only have to open our eyes to see those
worse off than ourselves, whether in our own countries or elsewhere in the
world. We are all one, all from the same
source, living in the same world and in the same universe. Life doesn’t have to be this tough – we can
reach out through love and kindness and help make everyone’s life a little
easier.
When
will people wake up?
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