Often times, we like to blame our mishaps in life onto someone or something else. “I can not get a job because the job market is not good”, “I fell down because the floor was slippery” and so on. Not once do we think, that I was not paying attention to where I was walking when I slipped, or my CV or my work experience is not good enough to get me a job! We find a sense of comfort in blaming things to something else. But when something like death or natural disasters happen, who do we blame it on? No one can predict death and or natural calamities. Sometimes, we humans must realise that there are things that are out of our control, regardless of how much we learn or achieve in life.

There is an article on BBC, Why does God allow natural disasters? discussing of the reasons why God creates natural disasters, if God exists. There is a question that many people ask, “why does it happen?” and those who believe in a super natural ‘God’ ask “Why does God make these things happen?”

Asking God such questions and blaming God for Haiti earthquake is not reasonable. There are somethings in life that can never be explained, such as why innocent girls get rapped, why newly born babies get infected with HIV and AIDs at birth, or why innocent Haitians have died in this earthquake. Yes, its not fair- but it happens and we can’t stop it, lets not blame God or anything/ anyone else for it.