After an earthquake (Source: JYI)

It’s hard not to get paranoid when you’re living in today’s world. This generation is growing, learning and dealing with all kinds of threats. Depending on what genre you prefer, movies provide a good visual presentation – albeit exaggerated – on what these threats are. These dangers could be political, technological, psychological or even theological. Mix all that and throw in Mother Nature wrath, and you have one hell of a disaster movie.

Taking out the movie context, most of us are really just doing our best to get through the day. Everyday we hear news about robbery, assault and violence; then, there are accidents, fraud and mismanagement. Sometimes it’s about psychopaths, extremists or killer teens who have lost their way. And then, we have the super typhoons, floods, wild fire, earthquakes, tsunamis and all kinds of disaster. You could try to prepare yourself for all of these events but I don’t think you’ll ever be that prepared. I know I’m not.

What happened in Japan is just devastating. This is one country that I felt was prepared for any disaster that would hit them. But you could never really be that prepared despite all the precautions you take. And now, once again, we see the numbers; how many have died, how many are still missing, how many have survived to tell their tale.

With another disaster having taken place, it’s so easy for us to go into panic-paranoia mode. You either succumb to it or be rational about it. With all of the things going on around the world, it’s not that hard to just pinpoint everything to one thing. Thus, the 2012 belief lives on. End of the world or not, are we prepared for what’s to come?