Riva Ysabel A. Vergara

A Walking Disaster By Riva Ysabel A. Vergara October 21, 2016 (a sample post from one of my long forgotten blogs: voicehigh.wordpress.com ) It’s the end of the world! The end of the world is near! It’s coming! Run for your lives! Funny how throughout the ages these phrases are repeated multiple times without causing panic, fear and a raised eyebrow. The end of the world is endlessly- with (sorry) epic failures- predicted from time to time and received with mixed reactions: fear, disbelief, and skepticism. Nowadays, ‘the end of the world’ is most likely treated only as a joke by most people, and the people who believe that the world is going to end are getting mocked here and there. Some people claim that they had seen visions of the world ending, prophesying even the date and the signs of the end times. But nothing happened. Everyone knows that there is only one being who knows when the world will end: God. So they were laughed at. But the world is going to end. But nobody knows when. Maybe it was already beginning and we’re just too naive to see the signs. Maybe not. Right now thou, with the path that humanity is taking, the world is going to end much sooner. We have reminders from our insolence of course, repeatedly from time to time and again and again. But nobody seems to have learned a single lesson. Disasters. Natural disasters like hurricanes, flood, typhoon, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and etc. Whenever these calamities happen it always seem like it’s the end of the world. Houses are destroyed, trees fall over or uprooted, buildings crumpled, a field burned to ashes, a whole city submerged underwater, and a whole pack of victims, people, breaking down. Pretty much like the end of the world, isn’t it? People’s lives just got destroyed in a blink of an eye. It was a reminder; that nothing is permanent in this world, and humans are as fragile as those infrastructures. But do we concede to these warnings? In the end, people will always say ‘Blame the government!’ or ‘God has forsaken us!’ Humans will always find something or someone else to blame; except their own selves. It was our own fault that the earth’s crust is crumbling. Our fault that we experience unnatural weather patterns. Our fault that our atmosphere is deteriorating. Our fault the waters and the air are collaborating to wage war on us. Our fault that the mountains are angry. Our fault that the plants wither and die. Our fault that our world is ending. Maybe the end is already beginning. Maybe not. Either way we’re doing nothing but to hasten it’s process. We don’t need some prophecy, some evangelical guidance to know that the world is ending- because we’re the cause of it! Are we so blind not to see what’s happening around us? Are we really so selfish that we actually don’t care? Trash here, trash there, and the devil may care. Build here, build there. Chop here, chop there and burn, burn, burn. The Earth is dying. It doesn’t take a genius to know that. It’s not just the earth itself we’re killing; we’re destroying humanity too, we willingly corrupt ourselves down to our very core. There’s always a fight, a murder, a rape, a massacre, shameless stealing of the people’s money, bankruptcy, a beginning of an impending war, corruption and etc. Human trafficking! Every single human on this earth are born equal and free, so what right do we have to sell them as slaves or like some other piece of furniture?! What’s worst? Those people who didn’t believe in God and spread darkness like a plague. We don’t know it, but we- humans; you, me, ourselves, everyone-bring destruction in our wake. We are nothing but a walking disaster.