The terrible scenes of the tsunami are still fresh on our screens. Thousands of people have been killed, many more are missing, and people are desperate.
It is when horrific events like these occur that I start to wonder how much we actually deserve in life. What I mean is - do we all deserve perfect health, and husbands, and children? We all seem to expect them.
Or, maybe I should say that all of us in the western world seem to expect them. We are drugged by our glossy magazines and celebrity pictures into believing that it is our God-given right to be beautiful and rich and glowingly happy, and if we are not then the world is tragically unfair.
I spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself. My poor stomach, I think, my poor defeated bowel. It is only occasionally, when the whole world wakes up to a disaster like this, that I realise that maybe I'm not so poor after all.
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