We just love life to carry on in its well-known groove, where everything is predictable and cozy. Life often does continue like this for many years and we should be thankful, but after some time, be it short or long changes will come in our lives. These can be very difficult times, especially when we have lost a love one. We then have to learn to cope and carry on in a different style of life and no one can pretend this is easy.I have written several poems about loss to which you can find a link below.
Poems of Loss
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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