10/12/2015
30 positive lessons learned from the Chennai Floods 2015 :
1. Religion can easily be kept at home where it truly belongs.
2. Pride can be swallowed to the deepest pits of silence.
3. Bravery can be very very infectious.
4. Warmth can spread faster than violence.
5. The strongest gates of homes can open up without request.
6. Husbands who have never seen their own kitchens can sit for days in community kitchens without a single complaint and still be happy.
7. Women who were toiling with kids at home can coordinate some of the biggest rescue operations.
8. The tightest purse is now over flowing without any strings attached.
9. The Muslims have prayed in Hindu Houses, Hindus have prayed in Christian houses and Christians have prayed in Sikh house and Sikhs have prayed in Jain Houses without a finger or even a word raised against each other.
10. The mischievous youth of yesterday have become the global beacon of hope.
11. Help has come from the poorest towards the richest not for the first time and not the last.
12. Schools, Colleges and Universities of learning are teaching a new syllabus of accommodation and fellowship.
13. People who lost everything did not lose their smile.
14. People who threw stones at animals are now feeding them.
15. Social Media which was called the next big evil turned overnight into a tool which saved thousands of lives.
16. Theft and crimes in houses which were vacant and left open, and on people forced on to the streets, were less than normal.
17. Nobody talks of caste when allowing them home for food or stay or while distributing essentials.
18. Even the weakest can help the strongest.
19. People have learned to stand in a queue at the ATMs, Community Kitchens, Milk vending units, Supermarkets and Bus stations without jumping them.
20. Help can arrive before it is late.
21. No one who came for help was ever turned back.
22. Brotherhood is bigger than the subtotal of our differences.
23. Kids and students who did not go to schools and colleges due to the calamity but ran out to help have probably learned their best lessons of their life.
24. Society can function beautifully with least governance.
25. Politicians will never change.
26. The first to respond are the Armed Forces guys.
27. Armed Forces came with all help..food,shelter, communication, air lift,medical n many other daring rescues.
28. The rescue operations were so very well coordinated by entire defence team of the Army Navy n Airforce.
29. The forces reached out to the poorest of the poor and treated everyone with no caste, color or creed differentiation.
30. Selfless service by the Defence forces who are doing the job without any expectation or anything in return..
