It Can Always Be Worse
I took a drive around Sharm the morning after the storm, thinking that what I had been through was the worst ever. My house was leaking all night, my windows were shattered, my car almost drowned, and outside my house was all muddy.
I had mixed feelings – there was a sense of sorrow, yet a strange sense of happiness in myself – it was almost like I was happy I went through something like that and survived. I grew up in Kenya, where it used to rain a lot – most of April, and the day always keep going on normally. Less than 12 hours of rain here left me feeling like my world was almost tumbling down.
As soon as I got out of Ruwaysat, I realized that the world did not revolve around me, and that no – it didn’t only rain in my house, and no – not only I had damages. Everywhere - there was water, mud, broken down walls, loads of garbage – and it seemed as though, Sharm was having a day of silence – no mobile network, no land-lines, no internet – no connection to the outside world. Puddles – more like pools of water took over the streets.
The morning after, I woke up really energized. We were fortunate to have electricity and Internet back. So the first thing I did, was log onto the news to see what was going on around us. Gratitude was what sprung to my mind. Gratitude for having been through the storm, but still having our lives and homes. There was footage of places in Ras Sudr, where homes where totally destroyed, lives taken, and people being rescued with fishermen boats. It was then – that it hit – it can always be worse, so be grateful for what you have, no matter what you have been through.
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