Death is never far from us! Yet people still bid for luck, or false hope, or simply lack of the courage in facing it (death) squarely and choose to escape or naively believing in something that they knew well would not work. Some described this "the market of hope" and it usually have a high value-added and difficult to benchmark the value of a life, or a day longer living, etc.
Open the newspaper today, 8 hostages were killed, 7 injured, 6 were released earlier. It was originally a group of 21 happy tour to Manila of Philippines. In the past 4 days, families were enjoying their holidays, enjoying their time together with other family members. Manila was considered a safe place to travel as for years and millions were in and out there without any issues. Then, walked up to the bus was this once outstanding (ex-)policeman, at his middle age, held the happy families as his hostage in seeking abandonment of his investigation and resume of work! This soft spoken person even told the hostages more than once he was not going to hurt them and they won't be killed. On the other hand, he did mention that he may be killed but not the hostages.
We don't really know what happened later that day, was the guy got agitated by the arrest of his brother, or all of a sudden, he changed into a cold-blooded, mindless, out-of-mind person, or it's simply the fate of life. This guy died at the scene, together with the 8 other people who otherwise were happy members of their own families. Lots of critique were on the handling of the Philippines police force incharge of the rescue plan, some went so far to blame the whole country and their people. Or can we not pause and think for a second, it's an unfortunate incident that happened. Yes, it's just another unfortunate incident that happened. The message is clear and loud, death is not far from us, and let's live our life to our fullest everyday!
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