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Proverb: Any port in a storm
When you are at sea, any port in a storm will offer relief and safety.
You may not like the port and it may not be where you’d prefer to be, but it’ll do until the circumstances can be improved.
This certainly has been a stormy week in Japan.
On Tuesday, here in Kansai, we experienced the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan in twenty-five years.
My small village lost power for three days.
I was beginning to think we were suffering before the electricity came back online on Friday.
Then I learned that Hokkaido had suffered a tremendously strong earthquake.
It topped the Japanese scale of 1 – 7.
These two natural disasters have made me realize that no matter how bad a situation you find yourself in, somebody, somewhere, always has it worse.
Even though I was faced with cold showers and eating packaged food by candlelight, I was glad my house was still standing.
Any port in a storm is better than no port at all.
Any port in a storm means that when you are facing a difficult situation, any form of shelter or comfort is a welcome relief.
I bet thousands of people up in Hokkaido are thankful to be staying in shelters at the moment.
Their homes have been damaged or destroyed.
A school gymnasium is better than sleeping in a car or out in the open.
Yes, Any port in a storm seems to be a wholly appropriate idiom to use for this week.
In Western countries, we take our high quality of life for granted.
Often, people don’t realize how lucky we are until Mother Nature comes along and wipes everything away with a flick of her wrist.
We may enjoy our big houses, cozy apartments and fancy cars, but they can all disappear overnight.
We’d be grateful for a gymnasium or evacuation shelter when it’s gone.
The expression of any port in a storm takes on new meaning after this week’s events.
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