Aren’t our lives like a competition too? Since the moment you were born, your weight has been measured and you would have gone through years of being compared with other children, and your parents will prepare you for all sorts of competitions, whether it is to get into a good school, a decent job, a suitable mate. Life is full of competitions and our society tends to reward the strong and mighty and ignore the weak.
據雅虎新聞報導：「南韓首爾梨泰院10月29日因慶祝萬聖節湧入10萬民眾，卻爆發嚴重推擠傷亡事件，數百人死傷，引發全球關注。總統尹錫悅下令徹查，並宣佈全國哀悼一周。」最近另一次的嚴重踩踏傷亡事故，是10月初在印尼的一場足球比賽釀成足球史上最嚴重的災難之一，人群在幾個出口處衝撞，發生踩踏事故，至少有135人包括數十名兒童在事故中身亡。
According to yahoo news, on October 29 in Itaewon, South Korea, one hundred thousand revelers who gathered to celebrate Halloween were caught in a crowd crush, leading to hundreds of fatalities and injuries. President Took Suk-Yeol declared a weeklong mourning as well as a thorough investigation into the tragic incident.
有一個代號為Dart的「雙小行星改道測試」(Double Asteroid Redirection Test)任務是於美東時間9月26日晚上7時14分成功地撞擊目標小行星迪莫弗斯(Dimorphos)，據《世界日報》報導：這次太空任務的成功「是人類史上首次實驗能否以人力干預太陽系引力，使預定會撞上地球的小行星偏離軌道的測試，驗證日後若有小行星或彗星對地球構成威脅時，撞走小行星救地球是否可行。
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has a Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART mission that successfully changed the orbit of an asteroid named Dimorphos by intentionally smashing into it on September 26th at 7:14 pm EST. This space mission success demonstrates that humans can take action to deflect a potentially deadly asteroid approaching the planet (Tim Fernholz).
由於全球暖化的效應，美國最大的人工湖「米德湖」（Lake Mead）因乾旱的緣故，而出現自1937年以來最低水位，只剩下百分之27的水量，由於水位的下降，近幾個月以來，不斷地有浮屍被人發現！警方根據五月ㄧ日所接獲的案件是一個人被槍殺後而棄屍在鐵桶中，然後再被拋入湖底的，估計是發生在1970～80年間的謀殺案。
Due to a global warming trend, Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the US, has a water level at 27% of its capacity, the lowest ever recorded since 1937 due to unusual drought conditions. Because of the receding water level, many corpses have been discovered! On May 1st, the police discovered a gun homicide victim possibly in the 1970’s or 80’s that was abandoned in a barrel and discarded in the lake.
While the conflict in Ukraine continues to rage on, Europe not only is facing a crisis in energy scarcity, but also a flood of refugee resettlement issues. However, the most shocking devastation is the record breaking heat wave across Western Europe.
當俄烏戰爭仍然在如火如荼地進行之時，歐洲不但要面臨能源危機，更要面臨與日俱增的難民潮危機，但是更令人震驚的是打破歷史紀錄的熱浪！據BBC的報導：「在葡萄牙，最近一日溫度已高達攝氏47度。在英國，英格蘭部分地區發出了極端高溫的紅色警報。
在美國華州的一名高中橄欖球教練喬·肯尼迪（Joe Kennedy) 曾在執教第一場球賽之前（2008年) 向神發出禱告的承諾：「每一場比賽後，無論輸贏，我都會為我有機會成為一名美式足球教練，以及我所有的球員感恩。」
