Life Tsunamis
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Suresh Subramaniam | Jan 03, 2010
During one of my visits to an isolated beach strip off Chennai, I had a chance interaction with a middle aged fisherman mending his nets. We were the only souls on the beach at that time.
Curious, I asked him about the killer tsunami that struck Chennai in December 2004. He vividly described how a huge wall of waves enveloped the beach and the land beyond, submerging his small fishing hamlet together with men, women and children. Later on, I contemplated one point that struck me most during our beach chat.The fisherman had mentioned that several hours before the tsunami, the sea had receded far from the land and the waves were very subdued – this was a phenomenon he had never seen in his lifetime. In hindsight, he concluded that this was nature’s way of warning about the upcoming disaster.
In work and life, we fail many a times, to notice the small but visible and obvious changes. We do not observe them and if we do, we prefer to ignore them. By the time we notice, they take on an ominous presence and acquire the momentum of a tsunami – and all we can then do is to run for cover.
Thankfully, not all small changes lead to life-changing, cataclysmic events. While it is good not to be paranoid, it is better to have a Plan B, so that when the inevitable life tsunamis are on the far horizon, we are well prepared.
Filed Under: Miscellaneous
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