Philippines is known for being a disaster-prone country
mainly because it is located near the Pacific Ring of Fire and lies along the
West Basin. As eloquently stated to a research, 20-21 typhoons enter the Philippine
Area of Responsibility every year and the country has numerous active volcanoes
which Filipino’s encounter.
November 2013, super typhoon Yolanda with the international
name, Haiyan hits the country specifically Samar, Leyte that caused the lost
and damage of some families in their properties, houses and typhoon left them devastated.
Despite of those calamities, Filipinos still manage to smile. It’s really more
fun in the Philippines! Because we always show our sweet smiles even though we
are facing a lot of challenges. Maybe we are not calamity-proof but our smiles
cannot be changed by problems. Filipinos think that we are greater than
problems, we always think in the bright side, like we are coated by positivity.
Super typhoon Haiyan didn’t leave a thing but the ‘Bayanihan’ is still there. Our
fellow Filipino still chose to help their fellowmen even they were both
affected by the typhoon. Filipinos show that you don’t need to live in a luxury
life to help, even the poorest person can help- even he don’t possess greatest
things.
It is truly that we can’t avoid the natural disasters, but
we can lessen its casualties and one way to cope up is to smile. Don’t let the
problem overcome you, you are the one who need to overcome them.
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AMAZING!
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