December 2013

Why, it's Christmas!  

Didn't the year just flash by?!?

What a disaster in the Visayas this month.  Typhoon Yolanda destroyed so much when it passed.  So many people dead... so much laid to waste!  

These natural calamities are coming quite often.  The end feels like it is just around the corner.  The Phivolcs presented an earthquake study to Meralco sometime this year which showed the level of destruction at various magnitudes.  Meralco's main office is only .92km away from the Marikina fault line so if a major earthquake, which is due, occurs during office hours, goodbye, Philippines!  Goodbye, Winnie!  Boom!

What are we to do?  Repent!  Pray!  But in reality, all we can do is live. Happily.  Insured.  Just in case you are survived by heirs.  

Do these disasters create a clamor for insurance?  I wonder if it tweaks the demand for it?  Are the insurance companies prospering?  Or are they failing due to their exposure?  How do they manage?  I know I pay a pittance for my security so how do they do it?  I'm sure an insurance guru will educate me shortly.

Companies are on charity mode.  No Christmas parties.  No gifts.  We must help our countrymen.  Give until it hurts, so people say.  So we the lucky, ordinary citizens give.  Time, money and effort with no expectations of heavenly blessings, public recognition or applause (except for some, apparently).

I am gobsmacked with news on how people or organizations squabble over who gets to give the relief goods, who is in charge of distribution and such idiotic issues.  For shame!  Why can't they all coordinate and find weaknesses in the chain and augment these chinks with their strengths?  Why would it matter to them who people think the help is coming from?  The world is helping and that is enough.  Check and balance should be  a team effort.  Everybody should be working together side by side.  No one should be the star.  

Why do we hear stories of people profiting from relief efforts?  Surely, everyone knows that those who steal from the poor will rot in hell for all eternity.  Painfully.  With no reprieve.  We all know that hell is real, don't we?!?  I know it is.  What a dreadful place.  But destiny is destiny.  Satan must recruit and populate his kingdom.  Hell is powered by the suffering of its inhabitants.  The screams and moans of suffering energizes its transmission lines at a constant peak.  There can be no lull or hell will freeze over.

There is no Christmas in hell.