Everyday Canvas

Storms and Resilience

For "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" 
Prompt: https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
Do you think storms are stronger or weaker than they were? What about where you live are there more or less storms.

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I think they are the same or could be stronger. The jury is out on that. I am not contesting what the article says, but I am not going to believe everything everyone says either.

It isn’t that we never had hurricanes before. There were some doozies, say during 1928 and earlier.

I live in the part of Florida in zone one where the likelihood of a hurricane hitting it has a much higher percentage than the other parts of the state. Still, the last time we were really hit was in 2004 and 2005. Last year’s Irma passed us by and hit most of the other parts of the state. My neighbor, a born Floridian, said other real hurricanes came by, during the seventies and a much milder one during the eighties.

We do have smaller tropical storms, though. Florida always did, but they produce nothing more than a tree branch falling or the traffic lights going berserk. When I used to live on Long Island, I recall having weather events with results scarier than what happens here.

I think the earth is a living being, who is very patient with our misdeeds, but it has its own ways of protecting itself, too. For example, several years ago scientists made a big deal of a hole in the ozone layer in the atmosphere. I was really worried about that myself, but that layer is closed now, on its own.

By the same token, I am wondering if this Covid19 pandemic is or isn’t the planet’s machination to protect itself from the overpopulation of its pests... Even if we can point a finger to a certain country for going nuts with their illicit and immoral researches.

For: "Space Blog" 
Prompt 2. From hbk16’s "Invalid Item" 
“When you fall, you get up.”

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With “When you fall, you get up,” the author is recommending resilience and determination to carry on no matter what happens. I think, this statement does agree with what the creation--or God or whoever you believe in—meant for us to do.

Nobody’s life comes with a map, although we may believe in the strength of our goals and wishes. Even those of us who have reached a goal or two, fully or somewhat, experience twists and shocks and serious hardships along the way.

These changes of adversity, trauma, tragedy, or stress do a number on us in different ways as we each respond to them according to our physical and psychological makeup. Then, when we bounce back from these challenges, we usually find that, despite their adversity, they also provide profound personal growth.

Therefore, when adversity shakes us, it is a good idea to accept its changes and try to keep things in perspective, and the most important thing is to never lose hope in the future or in ourselves.

Thus, “This, too, shall pass,” has been my motto, to which I’ve added, “Carry on!” It helps.