God Bless Haiti

30 seconds was all it took. Five seconds to second to see. Ten seconds to know. 14 seconds to run. One second to kill. It's more than just a natural disaster, it's chaos. We here in Canada regard this situation as "a horrible thing". Is that really what it is? 72,000 people have died, and counting. More are suffering through hunger, thirst, and the reality of the situation. Children have no parents, while parents have no children. They are all part of this tragedy, with no way out. They can't just get in their car and drive away. They can't escape the things that have happened. The only thing they can do is help. Pictures have been shown of the people working together as a community, lifting the rubble off of others. Taking the dead corpses and laying blankets over them. Oddly enough, some are even sharing the scraps of food that they have left with the people around them. They are all feeding off of eachother. Without people, we would be nothing.

Why? Seems like a pretty simple question right? However, the answers never are. Unlucky. Doomed. Unfortunate. How else can you describe it? We spend our whole lives building up, becoming a better person and making money -at least trying- so we can feed ourselves at the end of the day. If you think about it, we have more in common with Haiti than you think. They did the exact things that we did, but that all changed on January 12, 2010 at 4:09 pm. Everyone's hard work was shaken and torn until it was nothing. They spent decades trying to pull their country out of poverty, when all it took was 30 seconds to destroy it.

The technical form of an earthquake is when stress in the earth's outer layer causes a pushing effect against the sides of the fault. My form of an earthquake is indescribable. It's not like you can say "why would somebody do such a thing?". This time it's different. There is no one to blame.

We all know Canada is a very developed country because we have lots of resources and money to get resources. Between Canada and the U.S.A, we have raised over 58 million dollars for Haiti. Countries helping countries, countries working together, countries becoming one. It's all changing. But why did something like this have to happen to open our eyes? There's that word again, why? Like I said, the answers are never simple. But if we all just stop long enough to see that people need us, we can make a change for Haiti. We can be the role models that this world needs.

Nobody wanted this catastrophe to happen, but it did. So instead of wishing that it didn't, get out there and help. Don't stand there and watch, be the one that people are watching. God bless Haiti. "We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it." - Lauryn Hill.