It
was such a beautiful journey for thirty three miners that were trapped seven
hundred meters underground after seventy days and just rescued the other day.
Not even a Vertical Limit, Shangrila of the Lost Horizon and other
great movies and true to life stories in Readers Digest could match the drama, thrill,
spirituality gripping their story rolled into a miracle event these miners experienced seeing only daylight
after seventy days underground.
For numerologists enthusiasts, it might not be
a coincidence but numbers involved have their own story to tell in one of the
greatest survival incident ever told in recent history. Marcos’ favorite lucky number 7 used in the book of Revelations
featured twice in 70 days and 700 meters meters down under. Similarly, 33
miners are 3 days and 3 nights’ experience is reminiscent of Jonas in a belly
of a whale told in 3 chapters. 33 too was the remaining number of Guinsaugon
orphans out of 106 when they graduated
in high school in 2007.
The
world would soon see this journey when the next stop of these gallant Chilean
miners would be Hollywood . There would of course be no cut there featuring
the brave 19 years old Jimmy Sanchez, Manuel Gonzales who at 20 was already a
veteran miner. But it was Florencio
Avalos, 30 years old member of the group who made it all happen by personally capturing the incident with his own
camera dishing out his own commentary of the unpleasant incident keeping in
touch with rescuers up there and into the world until the rescue shaft finally
reaches the miners down under.
Real but soon to
be rolled in reel big screen world, people
all over the globe would soon know what it takes to feel like dying only to be
born again living in captivity in the real underworld wishing that the tragedy
was only a dream.
This triumph of
the spirit over matter, a miracle, pure nerve of steel with the use of latest technology making possible the greatest
survival story is still continually impacting all people of different races and
persuasion across the globe, from White House to Asia
and elsewhere as if it was only a passing incident as what were seen in movies.
But Chilean
miners story is true and probably would star in the collective consciousness of
the people across the globe as long as tragedies would continue taking its toll
in our environment and among the people.
And how could Philippines
not be part of that episode when we too have our own story to tell. Only that our mining industry and
calamity has buried many people for good in the case of Mt. Diwalwal and
flooded away innocent lives and destroyed untold number of properties.
The graphic TV
footage even among Ifugao women featured
by Howie Severino lately in Reporter’s
Notebook in GMA-12 tells it all that
women are also into it sacrificing their
fragile bodies to hazards of mining industry that saw little dividends reaped
by them at the end of the day.
. And who could
forget that tragic mudslide that overflowed
Ginsaugon in Leyte that buried an
entire village and more than thousand
faceless victims that otherwise would have been saved. Those innocent school children and their
teachers waiting for rescue that buried them in the end simply send trembling
down in my spine. Yet the irony of it all, energies were wasted as politicians
were even stealing the scene as oppositionists were doing their own thing
staging rally in Manila whose energy would otherwise been spent in Ginsaugon along
with volunteers from other nations braving the bad weather dugging casualties and
searching any proof of life to n o
avail.
Seven hundred
meters short of 100 meters to make it running distance of an oval of Sport
Complex was too far. And yet Chile
have shown they’re undaunted and no distance in abyss down under could dampen
their will and spirit in saving lives. Ours in Guinsagon with mudslide covering barely a story school building yet ironically inept in saving many innocent lives, That mostly of the victims are
schoolchildren and their teachers make the incident doubly outrageous. Where are Disaster Council and government
tasked in safeguarding and saving lives during tragedy of great proportion? How
many more lives will be sacrificed in
the altar of politics?
While the world
is celebrating the extraordinary feat
and heroism of Chile in rescuing their miners, I
hope we too would not lost sight in
reflecting on the true state of our
rescue system forever basking in our ineptness
The categorical
declaration that landslide is still hazardous
in two years by a scientist. should even
more make us even more cautious of other impending tragedy arising from our
immediate surrounding
Why our
authorities do a 
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