Because different people have different perspectives.

Seems like I have been watching a lot of movies/documentaries based on earthquakes lately ! And i heard this when I was watching Discovery earlier today
"This town was built on dreams."
And then I thought - aren't all towns built on dreams ? The dreams of the people looking to start a family, a community, a city, a country - its the dreams they hold that form the foundation of any city. So how terrible it must feel to watch your dream crumble and burn, right before you very eyes ?
I imagine it to be excruciating.

1. The first one I watched was 'Aftershock'. An earthquake in Tangshan during the wee hours of the morning destroyed the city and tore it to pieces. Not just the foundations and buildings, but the families, lives and hearts of the people living there. For a girl buried under the rubble to hear her mum's request to save her brother instead of her; for the son to lose his arm, sister and father.

2. I finally watched the documentary on the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake : Kobe Shimbun no Nanokakan. Its about the local Kobe newspaper - how the journalists worked to publish the newspaper during the time when the earthquake struck. While the rest of the country were looking at images of the destruction, the Kobe residents knew next to nothing about the situation, except that their family members were stuck beneath the rubble they once called home. The work of the journalists to bring information to the people, even when they themselves had missing family members they yearned to search for. Imagine seeing your city going up in flames - its like the dream you've been working at was destroyed in an instant. :(


Watching these, I felt all over again, how lucky we are to be living in Singapore, who remain unaffected by such horrors of Mother Nature. I don't think the us who have never experienced this will ever understand how it feels like. Like one of the journalists whose father was trapped beneath said : "The day I became an earthquake victim." He ended by saying "We never understand the plight and emotions of the victims, until we become one ourself."
At the same time, I too, realised the driving force of these people : PASSION.
Without passion, they wouldn't have been able to do what they did. はい。

And I finally, finally, FINALLY finished Liar Game ! It's good, I know. I just get really frustrated sometimes, cos of a lot of reasons. hahah. Okay, now to watch the movie ! Matsuda Shota is ♥ !