"Stormstruck"

author: Chez Mercado

Fear mixed with terror: that's how exactly what I felt for the past two days during the ruthless strike of the typhoon "Milenyo". As I heard extreme wind blowing outside my tranquil room, I quickly got up from where I was lying to check what's been happening outside, and to my surprise, trees wrecked halfway by intense breeze were what I saw. And with my own eyes, I actually witness how the roof of the house next to ours were ripped out of the house itself. The next thing I knew is that I was sitting right next to the edge of my bed catching my breath and I can felt my heart beat pretty fast. After several minutes, I still couldn't take that incident off my mind, it gives me creeps even just upon hearing the sound of the wind outside. I just knelt down and prayed to God for the safety of those who are close to me and also to everyone whom are badly affected by the said typhoon.

Probably, this is a warning from God. It's an indication that it's now time to conserve and care for our nature. It's like God wants us to realize that he has given us an environment to take care of and to help us in our daily lives, but let's not abuse nature's help to us. For example, cutting down trees, it will be fine if we cut down trees but the thing is, we have to plant another one to replace the one's that are been busted down. Upon observing things, I noticed that places that are badly stricken by the typhoon have one thing in common, they lack of trees. If only there are no shortage of trees then probably floods are controlled and everything will be in order. Surely, God doesn't want us to suffer that's why he let this kind of calamity happen to us so that we'll know how much we should appreciate nature and be thankful to God for he let us have a green and fresh environment to sip air from. He's not really asking something too much in return, just taking care of what he was given is enough for him. We should love nature because without it, there will be shortage of food and of course, carbon dioxide for us to breath.

Now, it's clear that without nature, this world will just be a barren and dry land. And that's what God wants us to realize. From now on, I think we should start planting trees again so that if one of these times another typhoon as strong as this one or even much stronger than this happen to hit us again, then we would be ready to face it because of the trees we planted. And for sure if that happens, God will reward us something in return for taking good care of nature he provide for every individual in this world.