Average Joe In The House. sKy

Just came back after watching the movie "Poseidon".

In case you guys haven't heard of this show, let me tell you abit about the movie. Poseidon is the name of a luxury cruise, and it happens to be New Year's Eve. The captain was holding a countdown party at the ballroom when a Rogue wave over a hundred feet high hit them, causing them to overturn upside down.

While most parts of the ship were hit badly, the ballroom managed to remain intact, and the captain advised the people to stay calm and remain in the ballroom. A gang of people didn't. They believed that the ship would not be able to float upside down for long, and decided to head upwards to the surface (in this case, it's the bottom of the ship).

Of course, there's the usual problems, difficulties, setbacks, deaths, injuries, close shaves etc. I'm not gonna talk about the movie, in case you guys wanna go watch it.

What I wanna do is to post a question to you guys.

What will you do when a disaster like this hits you? What if you were one of the passengers in the ballroom? Will you join that small gang, or will you wait for help like what the captain mentioned?

I believe most of us will stay put in the ballroom, and wait for help to come. But to think of it, if you are in the middle of an ocean, how long do you think help will come? We are living too comfortably, that when such things happen to us, we won't do anything to save ourselves but rather wait for help to come to us.

I'm not stereotyping singaporeans, but I dare to say this is what we all are. We take things for granted. We think we have a good country, a good government, a good geographical location where we won't have any natural disasters, and a good army that can protect us when any other country tries to attack us.

We need to get out of the we-are-living-a-perfect-life fantasy, and tell ourselves that we are actually a very helpless bunch, that when any disaster strikes us, be it natural or man-made, we will all die.

That's what I think. What about you?