May 7, 2015
Earthquake Nepal 2015: My story
Dear
readers,
From
my past post, you all might be well acquainted of how much I love love
Saturdays and I am sure a lot of people can relate to that. However, this
particular Saturday, April 25th, 2015 was tainted by darkness. An unimaginable
event occurred, something that none of us had even remotely thought would
occur. That morning I was sitting in my red couch, and I was sipping Jasmine
tea. In fact I had also instagrammed a picture of it with a hashtag
#PerfectSaturdayMorning. Ironically a few minutes later, things changed. It
wasn't a perfect morning after all. At first, the doors started banging and my
first thought was who is banging our door. I stood up and realized that
everything was shaking and that’s when I suddenly felt the need to run. Immediately,
I yelled out to my family: "Earthquake, let’s run!" I opened the door
and ran from the second floor to the first when I realized my mum and my
brother weren’t behind me. That’s when I had to make a call in a tiny fragment
of second whether to run outside alone or go back up the stairs. I choose to
climb the stairs back as I could not imagine something happening to them. I
reached our floor when it started shaking more heavily and I just couldn’t move
as I kept falling back and forth. Luckily I was holding the wooden handles of
the stairs, which kept me buoyant. It was the most dreadful moment in my life
and in the life of every one living in Nepal, something I wish to never
experience ever again. I kept thinking “when will it stop” and it finally did.
That’s
when my mum and my brother started saying lets head out and they did but I
realized my baby dog “Liliyput” was on the terrace. So I went to fetch her.
Lily was at the top of the railings barking out loud maybe out of fear or
something else I could not figure out. When I called her, she did not respond
to me. So, I went up and carried her and ran out. My mum and my neighbor uncle
were furious at me saying you think of a dog instead of yourself. They were
probably worried about me as were thousands of people at that moment. Anyways,
what followed after that was the constant aftershocks some big, some smaller
ones but both equally taking our soul away minute by minute, hour by hour and
day by day. The death tolls were rising along with the ones injured, people
lost their family and their homes, unimaginable chaos spread everywhere,
shocking news bringing constant fear. Luckily where I live there wasn’t much
damage done except for a few tiny cracks here and there. We slept outside in
tents for almost a week after that. Now we are all okay and I have started
getting back to my work and opened my studio and praying for better calmer days
ahead.
Video By IFAA
Amidst all this, what we witnessed and felt was the awakening of compassion, generosity, kindness and humanity taking a beautiful shape in the form of unity and love for our motherland. The generous donations from all around the world, the helping hands were so overwhelming which gives us all hope that we will rise again and make a new Nepal better and stronger.
This was my story of Nepal Earthquake. A dreadful experience of a lifetime that I wish upon no other country.
You all stay safe.
XX
12 Stylish Comments:
Great post... my prayer for Nepal!!!
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Hi sweetie
beautiful post.
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Oh, I have been wondering about my blog friends from Nepal and if they are ok from the earthquake, especially you, Antee. I'm so glad you got out safe and your family as well. I appreciated the video that you shared, thank you.
Take care, my sweet blog friend, and I'm thinking of Nepal's people.
love, ~Sheri
Dear Antee, I can't quite imagine how dreadful that terrible event was for you, as fortunately I had never lived something similar, but I can imagine the despair of your people. I would like to help, so I'm asking you if you maybe can indicate me an organization directly in Nepal to send my contribution to (because having worked in a charity organization here I know that more than half of the money you give is finishing in administration etc.... and I'd like to avoid that.).
With all my love
Rosa Mimmino
Yes ,we have to pray!
lots if Hugs
thank you all so much for the kind comments!!
So sorry you and so many others have had to endure this terrible tragedy. Thankful to hear you and your loved ones are okay. Prayers to Nepal. T. http://tickledpinkwoman.blogspot.com
Oh no that's so sad! Fortunately you and your family are alright, but it's still awful what happened :(
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I'm so sorry for your experiences. My sister just came back from Nepal on Wednesday before the earthquake so my family was also shaken by this terrible event. We are having Restaurant Day, a festival where anyone can open up a restaurant anywhere in the city for one day without any permissions, here in Helsinki on Saturday and my sister is opening a pop up restaurant for Nepal. All the money she gets from the waffle stand she will have, she will send to a Nepalese family she met while staying there for a month or so this spring. Please remember that the whole world is having Nepal in their thoughts.
xxx
E from Helsinki, Finland
http://dragonflyelisabeth.blogspot.fi/
I am glad to hear that you and your family are fine, Antee! Hope, the second quake on the 12th of May also didn't affect any of you. Hope, life will come back to normalcy here soon.
When I was reading your story, I could literally imagine how it is. I have heard various stories from various people about their experience during the earthquake and it was a big tragedy in Nepal. I had my own set of stories of experience during the earthquake. It's at times like these we need to be strong, support each other and move on for a better life.
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