In Reply to: Human Kindness Overwhelms Me posted by TaniaT on Sunday, 9. January 2005 at 17:57 Bali Time:
Dear Tania,
I'm glad when I was able to spend you and the family of Paul a little comfort in this terrible loss.
I tried to respond your last posting, but I could not, I know what all of you have been going through the last two weeks, like Colleen will know this and also many others here on this forum.
I had to bury my father in 2003.
Paul is home now and that's good, he found his peace and the family will also find peace now.
Time after time the tears will disappear and you will remember him with a smile, you will recall the one or other
anecdote with him, you will gratefully look back on the moments you shared with him and it will warm your heart.
You are so right, whenever we can find something positive on this terrible catastrophe, then maybe and hopefully that the world came a bit closer now, that the tsunami has also washed away some barriers in our heads, in our hearts.
The bodies of the people which are found now do not differentiate anymore, not even different races are to recognise, if a Thai, a German, a Japanese, or a Singhalese they are all equal, they are all the same and this is the truth we are all the same at birth and we are all the same in death.
I don't know if you have seen the ceremony on Phuket, at the end hundreds of balloons were sent with candles into the night sky, it looked like the souls of the death would ascend and one balloon looked like the other.
Dear Tania, I wish you some tranquilly and calm days on the Isle of smiles, it's certainly a very good place to digest what happened.
warmest regards
Thorsten