Name: Tragedy in Catastrophe
Duration: P00H02M10S
Description: This piece highlight the events of Fort Mcmurray 2020

Tragedy in Catastrophe

by Brian Walrond

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This piece highlight the events of Fort Mcmurray 2020

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Do you remember me?
I know it may bring up some difficult memories.
But I am a member.
See, I lived in Timberlea in May 2016 with the fire almost destroyed everything.
And everything changed and the thing that would never be.
Are most people over the pain and loss of that time?
I don’t know, but some pretend to be.

That is why it is so sad to see that only four years later, we are facing another catastrophe.
Instead of a fire, it is a flood that is damaging the city and hitting the people in Fort McMurray.
And adding insult to injury, the falling oil prices and the declining economy is this global pandemic of COVID-19.
What a tragedy that is happening that is beyond imagining and beyond belief.
Another disaster needing relief.
Where is the comic relief?

I want a splash of smiles and laughter please.
But it is not funny about thousands more evacuees,
And people are like, I am ready for this to be over, next chapter please.
Again, we have to ask the questions.
What is really important and what really matters to me?

It is now 2020.
It is not the end of the story, but just the moment in history.
And it’s such a mystery how something so bad, can bring strength in adversity.
Where we come to the end of ourselves and the frailty of our humanity after emoting our raw emotions through angry outbursts, despair, and profanity, we have a moment of clarity.
In the midst of the insane, we gain sanity.

We are all broken and in need of mercy.
Trapped in simple vices and needing to be free of our inner demons and shedding our insecurity and shame.
We all know something needs to be changed.
In you and me, we are made for much more than possessing things.

So, after we get through this catastrophe,
And after this disaster passes and becomes a distant memory,
If we choose to go back to our complacency and apathy and not live our lives with things that truly matter and do something to change our destiny,
That would be a greater tragedy.
That would be a greater tragedy.
That would be a greater tragedy.

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released June 26, 2020

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