Earthquakes, Great and Small

My God.

So far the number is up to 32,000 people. It's been days since the earthquake but I'm just reading about it now. Looking at the photos on CNN.com. 32,000 people. These are the things that will happen in a lifetime that we cannot control. In China, it's this... in Myanmar, it's a cyclone. Here in the states, last weekend was one crazy fit of tornadoes. Though that doesn't even compare to what is going on overseas.

Again, these are the things we cannot control.

So... the question I pose is simple. Or the statement, which can lead to questions. There are many, many heartbreaks that will occur in a lifetime. We will lose people and bad things will happen. We will suffer from illnesses we did nothing to cause. Genetics are what they are. These are the things worth worrying about. The other stuff, the small stuff, we should not sweat but we do. Why? Why do we bother to stress out about what people who don't matter to us think? Why do we worry needlessly that someone's going to get over on us and betray us? That someone, somewhere, sometime will hurt us. What have we done to ourselves to feel that these things are of primary importances. Yes, betrayal hurts. Yes, relationships end. Yes, intimacy and trust lacks. Generally, people are not out to get us. However, if we're looking for it - I do believe it will find us. We'll draw to us those experiences which will hurt. I don't know, it's very confusing. But, I would rather not stress about the next time someone will do me wrong. Especially when we can't control the weather. Why not wait and save your tears for the major events and let the little ones go? The little ones harbor resentment and fear. Resentment erodes the beauty of the soul and bad things come of it.

I know because I'm only human too.

"It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the evil to suspect good." -Marcus Tullius Cicero-