[Oe List ...] About Japan

[Jaime R Vergara]

While we must do what we can to share of our means, we might have the humility to learn from the recipients of our goodwill, as well.  This was forwarded to me from a friend in San Francisco.
 
Japan In a Time of Crisis
 

1. THE CALM
Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.

2.THE DIGNITY
Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.

3. THE ABILITY
The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn’t fall.

4. THE GRACE 
People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.
 
5. THE ORDER
No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.

 
6. THE SACRIFICE

Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid?

 
7. THE TENDERNESS
Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.

 
8. THE TRAINING
The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.
 
9. THE MEDIA 
They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters. Only calm reportage.
 
10.THE CONSCIENCE
When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly.
 
Domo arigato gosaimazu, Nippon-san.

(Remarkable that the casualties are mother nature's more than the feared catastrophe on the nuclear reactors.  Am anti-nuclear power to the degree that we do not still know where, and how to dispose of the 25,000 year radioactive spent fuel.  We can now build reactors that can withstand 10.0 of the Richter scale, but does still does not deal with my concern.  Nuclear reactors will not go away unless we blow the planet away into pieces.)




j'aime la vie
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