Absurd…

I would like to share my reflections about Haiti earthquake and the tragic aftermath regularly reported in the news. As an observer, I feel angry and sad with some comments and political controversies about why that happened, how much time each country brought help and support, the efficiency and poor coordination on the field….

It is hopeless to see people spending time and energy to endless critics while we are here in the utmost and clear demonstration of the absurdism of our life.

The only word I have to qualify my feeling about this human tragedy is absurd.

It is absurd in the concrete and realistic sense of the term as we know that this poor country has been struck by tsunami a couple years ago and that it is on the way of a high seismic activity.

It is absurd as I can not believe that the technology was not able to predict it first and then we were not good enough to prevent it.

As always in similar case of peril and human tragedy, it was good to see several nations use their power to bring help, compassion and support very quickly. However it was sad to see the critics and controversies arise on the efficiency of the help on the field.

It was good to see this worldwide concern and support at individual level often expressed as a financial contribution to help to improve the life of the Haitian people. At the individual level, I can’t help but thinking about the conscious and unconscious motivations of people giving money to Haiti. Is it unconsciously a way to recognize that this tragedy is a fatality and God as the master of the Universe can play a role her? In other words, it is a way to have clear conscious with God?

Is it to repress the idea that death is part of the human condition in other word a way to deny the reality of life’s absurdity?

Would Camus be still alive, he would have certainly commented the tragedy as absurd from a philosophical point of view.

To me, this kind of tragedy recalls us that death is unpredictable and gives us the right perception of life. In this sense, all human activity can be considered as absurd and the real sense of the life is to be aware of its actually and totally beauty and pain.