totally-fresh reminder, however, because we have seen it occasionally. Before the “wild boars” we had the 2004 tsunami and so on.
When sufferings are real, flooding is not a blessing in disguise. It’s a challenge, no more and no less.
And humans are not being defied to “rebuild” after the flooding, because rebuilding and standing back up are what we do, time and again throughout history. We are more than capable of that.
The real challenge is not even about whether humans can help one another when big disasters strike. We also have proven time and again that it can happen.
The ultimate challenge has to do with the questions why it has to take a disaster like flooding for humans to show noble potentials; whether humans can reform the collective idea of what really matters; and whether the occasional glimpses of real virtue can stop being just glimpses and turn into everyone’s prevailing and long-lasting trait.
