Plates shift beneath the earth-pressure builds-this intense pressure is relieved by the earth moving-an earthquake. Critical mass is reached, correction is made, balanced is restored.
In ignorance we build our world on unstable ground. We become victims of what we don’t know. Sometimes we become victims of what we do know.
Either way, regardless of its cause, when disaster occurs, it becomes what IS. Then what we do with what IS becomes our defining moment.
What was before the “what is” can be examined, now or later, and learning from it can be chosen. However, in the acute disaster, whatever it is, we can choose primal survival behavior or access our evolved self and rise above the “me against you” separation.
Can we? What do you think?