Agony & Hope - Post 8:50:38 AM, 8 October,2005 ~ Revisited
It still feels like just yesterday when I woke up with thundering jolts of my house in Islamabad … the worst tremor not in my 22 year life only but something that was equally horrific to almost three generations.
The picture attached here in the post truly reflects the physical pain … emotional sorrow … and what not … It’s utterly difficult for me, at least, to look at it for more than few seconds … just opened the image while writing this post … and three times it happened that world became blur … the soul of this picture creates a such a deep impact of profound loss…!
Loosing your loved ones in just few minutes times … you can listen to the cries … the call outs … you can feel them … BUT you can’t dig them out … this is the most agonized moment for any human being … That’s how many stories were written … many fates were decided after 8:50 AM on 8th October’ 05 …!
Moments that rocked the whole nation … every one was spirited to do something … to provide hints of relief to the unfathomable sufferings of our brethren … everyone I guess tried their best to do what they were capable of … But was it enough …???
I can’t forget those nights when I would wake up with jolts still coming … of around 5-6.8 magnitude … fearing that it may worsen the condition in quake affected areas …. Switching on the TV to know if everything is fine … every rain drop would make me nuts …. Since it would worsen the recovery operations … and I was not alone in my prayers … that I was always sure of …!
But that is all what our brethren went through … what we felt … for few months in the past …. What’s happening in NOW … Ok everybody may be discussing at length the achievements or failure of government … NGO’s ….fair enough …!
Something that I watched few weeks back on a TV channel … it rocked me completely … since many children were left alone in this cruel world to take care of themselves … no parents no elders in whose shelter they can take refuge … many of them unfortunately are young girls … teenagers … some even younger …!
The report I saw was about two girls …. Two sisters …. With no trace back of family … the elder was of some 13-15 years of age … and her sister merely of 5-6 years … and believe me they were the most Innocent … Beautiful faces I ever saw in my life … and their story was so miserable but Thanks to Allah that he kept them safe and sound from cruelty …!
From Azad Kashmir, somehow some NGO or whatever brought them to Lahore … a total alienated environment for them … there quite an organized GANG was gathering such children and specially girls for smuggling to Dubai … and other places … reason I guess is blatantly hurting … few girls were even raped in front of these children … somehow these two girls, her younger brother and two three more girls from the same village got an opportunity to run away from the place… with men following them, they get separated from elder girls … their brother … it break my heart really when I try to feel the pain of 13 year old girl running with her 5 year old sister with men following … your honor at FULL RISK … a strange place … and no one to go to for help … somehow they reached around Meenar e Pakistan … there some security guard helped them and finally safely delivered them to Edhi centre … I don’t know if they are yet united with their left over family … their lost brother … or not … but whenever I think about them … prayers and love is what my heart yeans for them …!
But what about the ones who were molested … abused … raped??? What’s it really all about … what’s the craving …?
Ending up with these beautiful words … of Hope … Loss … Love … Tears … Emotions …by Sonya that I found online … and some more feelings and emotions dropped here …
When our faith lifted us up,
And gave us courage to ally……
God saved us from death and misery
And gave us vision to help and try…
To comfort those who lost all,
Family, homes and friends……
Whose loved ones died and got injured,
But still have kept the strength….
We all got united,
Free of country, faith and fears,
And gave the world this message….
To wash away the tears…
Life has changed a lot,
But left us with a thought….
We should live in peace and love,
Is the lesson this disaster has taught….!
Ask Yourself, Have You Forgotten The 8th October Sufferings …? or better Visual and Emotional overview of Pakistan earthquake, follow this Pakistan Earthquake Flickr group.
Somehow, disaster seems to bring out the best in some men and the worst in others. I think it would not be incorrect to say that it causes good men to become better and bad men to become worse.
October 8th, 2006 at 6:02 pmThis picture has so much in it & yes i can just say but their faces tells you that how panic it is to loose your love ones. May ALLAH showers his blessing on those who have lost their love ones & also give them patience.This picture is a complete story that is why i have posted it at my site too.
October 8th, 2006 at 6:13 pmIt was 8th of october 2005 & i was at my office. suddenly i heard about earthquake in Pakistan, i was totally shocked. I was trying my home number but that was busy. I was calling again & again but invain.My heart beat was getting fast & my family faces were moving in my eyes. I was near to cry but very same time i called my sister’s home & asked them about everyone. They informed that we all are safe by ALLAH’s grace but Kashmir & NWFP has been gone for a big destruction & some part of Islamabad too. Honestly first of all i thanked ALLAH that my family is safe & get relaxed. I was not hoping that destruction will be as much as it was. when i saw at geo at night then i came to know that many of the areas were removed from the earth. It was a big desauster ever in the history of pakistan.
A very very great post, which describes your feeling for the earthquake victims. Keep posting
sharmindagee hoti hay… bus kuch din..kuch mah..or phir sab wesa?
October 9th, 2006 at 12:07 amme b apni parhaai ka bahana bana k beth gayeee…
i hope this winter brings blessings for them….
The picture alone speaks a thousand words..
October 9th, 2006 at 3:56 amWe should do what we can. there’s so much to be done still.
October 9th, 2006 at 4:57 pmkehta hain ke apne leya tu har koi jeta hai asal jena tu wo hai ke dosaron ke lea jeya jahe….
actually hum loog selfish ho gahe hain like essjee said…. hum bas “main” main kahain gum ho gae hain hum behesi ki entaha tak pohanch choke hain…
wat i am thinking ke aaj hi ke din kun saab ko yaad aya ke 1 yr pehla humare jazbeh kea teh humare ehsasat kea teh…. kesi aur din kun nahi humare andar ki awaz ne humain janjora….
sayad aab phir kuch din kar hum usi tarhan humare andar jazbah jage ga help karne ka phir kuch diinon baad phir se apni apni life main magan ho jahian ga… esa jesa yeh bi ek rasaam si ho….
baat tu taab hai na ke hum saab es jazbeh ko sone na dain …. humain kesi kaas din ki tu zarorat nahi ke hum un loogon ki help karain…
October 10th, 2006 at 9:47 pmYupsy I agree we can still do a lot …. and zenii its just that particular days trigger the spirit … you wont feel the same fervor may be rest of the year let alone the one you’ll enjoy on 14th august … so that’s a personality trait … humans are living with …. !
October 11th, 2006 at 12:04 am