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What can a disaster teach us about facing change in our lives?Many of us are fortunate never to have experienced the abrupt and devastating change a natural disaster can deliver, whether it be an earthquake, a tornado, or a wildfire. And hopefully we will never have to live through the horror of a man-made disaster: a terrorist attack or an airplane accident.
But we do experience similar hurt, pain, and loss in the waves of change that affect our personal lives �" small ones and those that are life-altering �" such as the death of a loved one, losing a job, moving to a new city, going through a divorce, or facing a prolonged illness.
In a New York Times article on March 24, 2011, Martin Fackler describes how a powerful earthquake and tsunami in March destroyed scores of small villages on the east coast of Japan. The article, “Severed from the World, Villagers Survive on Tight Bonds and To-Do Lists,” provides lessons and inspiration on how to move forward, in small and large ways, when unexpected disaster strikes. While much of the inspiration may be particular to Japanese culture, the story of how an isolated village learns to cope with disaster carries universal ...