How did Tsunami change your life?

[Candyflip]

Today Memorial ceremonies for the anniversary of Thailand's tsunami disaster were held in many places. It is the worst disaster I ever experienced, although I did not lose anyone I know.

I volunteered in Khao Lek last year. It was my first time that I experienced the dead bodies. There were thounsand and thousands of them laying around. I did rescue some bodies in water area with international diving crews. Unforgettable experience.

Full story can be read at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4145711.stm

Now one year had past, I look at myself I saw some changes. I am much closer to my family than before. I was always argued with my dad, because I never lived with him and we didn?t really understand eachother. He is a business man and I am an artist. Now I have changed my attitude a lot. I spend more time with him. We still argue but it is much better than before. We work out some problems together. I may doubt where he had been in my last 20 years that he left me, but it does not matter much anymore I still have a half life to make up with him, better than those people who did not even have a chance to say goodbye for their love ones.

The tragedy has given me the thought of trying the best, being a good person when you are alive. You just never know what may come tomorrow.

It is a big change in my life. I wonder how others experience the changes in other aspects.

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RIP

[friends]

effected!! Quiet on Koh Samet..

[smartass]

i've learned that one should always have conscience in whatever one is doing, and wherever one is in or surrounded by.

i've learned that you should cherish the life you have, now that you 're given another chance to continue it. - 2005 has been an amazing year for me. the only thing i regret is that i should have stayed in patong helping them instead of keeping myself depressed in the bedroom.

[Kayle]

I realized how fragile life is. We should cherish every second we have. The picture of approaching high wave I saw from the restaurant that morning is still in my mind.

[Candyflip]

I am really touched what craz_dyskel siad.

Since she s gone ... i swear 2 her i ll live 4 her , i ll not give up 4 nything , i ll stronger n stronger day by day 4 her

Great one. I will remember that.

Most of us had leant the reality of life, to be good with the person you love today, u never know what tomorrow bring.

Thank you you girls for sharing.

[appun]

I realize that death is everywhere.... Live my life more worthwhile :arrow:

[Down2Earth]

It didn't change my life but it helped me appreciate being alive eventhough being alive in a shitty day.Realized that bad days won't last forver as well as the good days. Sometimes you have good and bad day in one day.

Just like those victims who were enjoying the wonderful beaches that morning and totally different story of their lives in the next minute!

RIP.

[tallboyno1]

"Just like those victims who were enjoying the wonderful beaches that morning and totally different story of their lives in the next minute!..."

Yes it give me a lot of memories from the Tsunami, Bali etc :cry: how quickly life can change for everyone affected no matter who you are.

I think you should appreciate every minute and second of your life and be happy with what you have. Every day is a gift to you and you can always have your dreams come true tomorrow but thats tomorrow life every minute and second of today first.

I learned a lot of this kind of thinking when I was living for a while in South America/Venezuela. That was totally opposite of coming from my countries culture where everything is very safe in every way. Today my country is unfortunately different then before and you can just remember about how things was before. But thats life.

So what happend in Thailand, USA and Bali is things that can and will happend again somewhere. Hope that you and I will not be there next time only.

[shakee]

For you my dear sister

Holding onto me forever

Disco dancing with the rapists

Your only crime is silence

Can?t work at this anymore

Can?t move I want to stay at home

Tied up to all these crutches

Never far from your hands

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Can?t speak, can?t think, won?t talk, won?t walk

Doctors tell me that I?m cynical

I tell them that it must be chemical

So what am I doing girl

Cry into my drink I disappear

Eyes for teeth waving over me

Bring down the shadows of my mind

Sleep and breathe under our sheets

Inhale the anxiety in-between, in-between, in-between, in-between

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Through september under the weather

In-between, in-between, in-between, in-between

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me

Take the gi?s I will have the spies

MSP c