A Secret for Two

Depending on something your whole life and then realizing one day that it wasn’t there, can really have a devastating effect on your life. An example of this might be if you’re on a plane and the pilot has a heart attack, whose going to fly your plane. Now you might say that’s highly unlikely, but that’s precisely when it happens, it happens when you don’t expect it and when you can’t stop it. ”A Secret for Two” is a great example of that and man’s struggle to deal with the unexpected.
Most of us have experienced things like this happening all around us and have seen how it affects everyone that was associated with it. We have seen nine-eleven victims’ families suffering from the loss of a loved one. We’ve seen families mourning over the death of a family member fighting in Iraq. It’s not an experience that anyone needs to go through and it can devastate entire families. Fortunately most people don’t have to experience these events, although it sadly happens much more often than it ever should. Although this horrible situation has never happened to me before, I can still imagine what these horrible events would do to people.
A great example of a situation like this would be the recent 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday, January 12th just before five p.m. This earthquake demolished schools, hospitals, and homes, leaving these people with nothing except the loss of loved family members, lack of supplies, and no hope. Just imagine, one minute you’re doing your daily chores and the next your house and belongings are nothing but a pile of rubble. Imagine how severely all of those people needed to deal with the unexpected, and how we struggled to provide all of the devastated victims with needed medical supplies, food, and water.
Another natural disaster that represents this might be the category five Hurricane Katrina that hit our southern border, devastating cities such as New Orleans, 105 billion dollars were spent to help rebuild New Orleans and Mississippi alone. Over 1,800 people lost their lives to that storm, and over 700 went missing. This deadly monsoon truly tested mans’ ability to deal with the unexpected.
All of these events are examples of man’s weakness to deal with unexpected events; from nine-eleven, to Hurricane Katrina, and then to Haiti’s devastating earthquake, man’s struggles are everywhere. The only thing that keeps us going is our ability to commit to something and to overcome adversity; to keep going, even though we might end up losing more than we gain. “A Secret for Two” is a great example of this and man’s struggle to deal with the unexpected.