New Wind to My Life
May 15th, 2011 | by Masa |
This past year seemed to be a big watershed in my life. I switched my job from management position at Abercrombie and Fitch to an IT role in a IT support company. Now I am happily working and step by step progressing toward my career goal. Personal wise, there were many incidents that gave me so much pain and breakdowns, which I am not going to talk about because it’s too depressing. But I think, because we feel the pain and sorrow, we grow stronger and appreciate what we have today. On March 11, 2011, M9 earthquake and big Tsunami hit northern east coast of Japan, which caused catastrophic damage. Over 15,000 people passed away. About 9,500 people are still missing. Due to that, Fukushima nuclear plants had explosion, which forced us to face the fear of radiation leaking. Every country’s’ embassy advised its own nationality in Tokyo an emergent evacuation. This incident made us realize that we were taking for granted what we have in our lives: food, water, gas, electricity. And also, there are people and nature on risk in order for us to have the unnecessary luxury in our lives. We just turn on the Air Conditioner when we feel hot a little bit. We turn on the car engine when we want to go to convenience store in walking distance. When we don’t want to eat some dishes, we just throw away as garbage. Now, we only can regret our stupid past behavior and pray for those who are suffering in north Japan.
But I hope we learn from this incident, and also do not forget that people from around the world helped those who lost houses and family regardless national boarder or human race.
I was watching this movie called Sweet Land, which depicts the story of one American man and German male-order back in war era. Just like those days, we can help each other when someone is in suffer regardless language barrier or nationalities.
There were a couple of other amazing things happened to my personal life as well. But that’s another story…
