Just a perspective:

Monday – March 14, 2011

Just a perspective:

Every Monday, I start the week with a thought or even projecting what might be in the news for the week. This week we will hear more about the aftermath of the earth quake and the tsunami that hit Japan last week. We will see more terrifying video footage; we will see more pictures and hear stories about courage and stories of defeat as the week looms on in Japan.

If there is one thing we can take out of the tragedy in Japan, is that no matter how we prepare and no matter how hard we work to achieve the good things that we all want for our families, tragedies can occur in the blink of an eye.

I was listening to the taped news shows late Thursday night and woke to the sound of a FOX news alert. I was half asleep and half awake, when I saw the first video streaming at 2:00 am in the morning. Some times I get a little restless, so I stay up. When I got my senses back and realized what I was watching I had a terrified feeling. At first I thought I was dreaming, only to realize that what I was watching was real and not some computer generated graphic.

Real life and death and real life destruction was occurring on my 50 in. HD - TV. I have been hearing stories all weekend about the tragedy in Japan. A one time enemy that we brought to peace through the use of a Bomb that represented the dawn of the nuclear age was once again being threatened by a new nuclear threat: that being the nuclear power plants that were built to supply electricity for millions of Japanese citizens. These power plants that were designed to bring comfort and security to 2/3 of its population were now becoming an added source of fear and anxiety.

If we look at how quickly a tragedy can happen, we would consider staying inside of our safe domains and never going out of the front door. We are humans and we do scare, but as easy as we scare, we tend to gain courage and set examples of leadership through courage.

If we look at the courage of the people that are now living the nightmare we can gain a perspective of how fortunate we are and also ask how we can help.

It takes little things like organizing a campaign to send packages of aid and contacting the Red Cross. Ask your church leaders how to send articles of clothing and canned items to relief organizations. Get on the internet and look for organizations that are looking for specific things. Use your creative thought process to come up with a plan to help the people of Japan and ask others to do the same through that perspective.

The people of Japan are only human. They will persevere, if we can do just a little thing to help them persevere, it will go along way for their survival.

The Japanese are proud people with a rich history. Their culture is one of tradition and one of planning ahead. However, no one could plan a head for a tragedy of this magnitude and of this scale.

It is simple for us to gain the things we need here to live on. It is altogether a different thing in Japan tonight for them to get the things they need to live on.

Let’s show the world how America can go to a neighbor with open arms to help!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone conservatives

A footnote: Politics aside, no matter what your perspective might be helping a neighbor is always the right thing to do.