In memory of thousands...

There are days in our lives that we'll never forget and this is also the same for nations. Sure on our long run on the path called life, there will be many to be remembered or celebrated, but some of them effect you deeper. 17th. of August is one of them for my country. It's the day that we had so many casualties; more than thirty thousand citizens lost their lives according to the official statements, but we all know our loss was far more than that they declared. It was a severe eartquake that caused this and most of us still have the post eartquake damages and fear from any little one that occur. It was 3:02 am in the morning that the eartquake struck us and we all shattered and shaked for more than a minute by an enormous force that was measured 7.4 magnitude. Thousands of buildings collapsed and many lights of life extinguished. It's the 15th. anniversary of it that we all want to forget the moment, but we should never forget all the destruction and loss, because we live on a land that has some of the most active fault lines of the planet. A really big and dangerous eartquake is expected right beside the biggest city of our country and knowing that nothing's done to strengthen the buildings or building new and safer ones really fears me of that day. I just wanted to remind that most of us live in unsafe cities and need to take action to persuade our governments on doing something with our taxes instead of peculating public money. I pray for the souls of people that lost their lives in all natural disasters and wish them to rest in their eternal sleep. Instead of sharing photos of the wreckage after the earthquake which won't be much heartwarming, I'll share a sweater I've knitted of red yarn to wear daily on cold winter days. I hope you all will like it...