How to cope, with the trials of your lives, translated…
In the early morning of February 6th, 2016, a major earthquake in Tainan claimed over hundreds of lives. The bad designs of the architecture, the manmade errors, combined with the earthquake, a natural disaster, caused this accident to be the most serious case of building collapsing in Taiwan.
The most heart wrenching of this disaster, other than the broken pieces of all those families, there are still, several young angels who didn’t get the chance to grow up yet, and forced, to bid their farewells to the world. The homes with children, I believe, can relate even more closely to this sort of heartache and fear.
The day after the major earthquake in Tainan, my four-year-old youngest daughter asked me, how come the houses in the news had, fallen like bricks? Were they all, kicked down by someone? My six-year-old eldest also inquired, how come, so many people are crying? The happenings of a disasters, are chances to educate, rather than having the children get the news and information by word of mouth from their friends, instead, use a more positive, more valuable way to teach them how to face the disasters, what they can do, to stop living in fear, and help them understand, that their beloved parents will, be there, to protect them.
Fear is normal, but, avoiding and suppressing the traumas and feelings from major life-threatening accidents are, unhealthy, using the positive attitude to sort through the emotions, is a healthier, and more natural way of coping. And so, I’d explained to the children, that Taiwan is a place, where earthquakes happen often, and I’d used their blocks, to show them, built two movable houses on the folding table, one without the wood to connect, the other is plastic, but with the support from the wooden pieces. Then, I’d told them, that as the earthquakes hit, the earth would move like this small table, shaking left and right, moving up and down, and, when the tables shook, the wooden blocks without the connector pieces would, fall, to their block pieces within a few short seconds, and the blocks with the rods connecting only moved. This is a sort of an experimental lesson that can be expanded on, other than letting the kids know the importance of the structure of the houses, it’d also teach them, how they’re supposed to act, to increase their chances of survival when a major earthquake DOES happen.
There are a TON of accidents happening in the world every single day, reviewing over our lives, we’d all had, moments of close encounters too. when I was eighteen, I’d had spontaneous pneumothorax, stayed in the hospital for a while, and it’d deepened my understandings of how quickly a life is lost, and how precious life truly is.
When we face a difficulty in our lives, we can face it positively, and also, accept that we feared, but eventually, we would, need to, get through the traumas, and, choose to love this world again, with our confidences. Making our own lives better, is the only way to offer console to those who love us.
Everything happens for a reason, accept the processes these encounters in your lives bring, because none of us can escape these dangers with the sudden onsets, but, we can, choose the attitude we carry, to get through it.
So, this man used the example of the earthquake, to educate his two children, and, he concluded, that trauma IS a part of life, and the important thing is how you choose to handle the traumas in your lives, do you get beaten and never get back up again, or, after the hard cries, the pains, you’d still CHOSEN, to GET back up? That, is the attitude that the writer of this article is conveying to the readers out there.
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