The season’s 12th typhoon is gone and left much destructions behind.
My heart hurts and become wordless when I think of the people who have suffered from a tremendous amount of loss.
Most of Japan’s land area is mountainous; some includes precipitous mountains.
The water coming from those steep mountains lashes out people who live on a flat land time to time. That is the origin of Japan as a land of water.
Every year at some places, there have been attacks from the nature, and we are the people who repeatedly reconstructed the damages. Many remained to the land, didn’t give up, and re-established. Those attitudes have nurture Japanese people’s strong- mindedness.
Including the last Tsunami on March 11th, Japan has suffered from many natural disasters for so many years, especially related with water. At each time, however, our ancestors got back on their feet. In other words, water has made the people strong.
That is the root I call Japan as the land of water. People never gave up, and after so many torments from the nature, they have taken careful precaution against the disasters which would happen again. Even so, we still cannot predict natural disasters, and there are still victims. I am sure, however, that the number of the victims has decreased comparing to the past disasters of the equivalent size.
In the near future, I believe that we will evolve into a world which will keep people away from natural disasters from any kind. Moreover, that will be enabled by living together with nature. That idea may be the reason why Japan is respected from other countries. The nature does not intend to attack human beings. It just has overflowing energy which causes the disasters sometimes.
Thinking about the people who passed away from those disasters, I cannot help thinking that it could be me. That strongly reminds me that I have to value more of my life, which is kept alive by something greater.
