Litany of Castigation

Current System Configuration: Indignant
Earworms:
-Avantasia from Tobias Sammet's Avantasia: The Metal Opera [Power Metal]
-Kyrie by Yoko Shimomura [BGM: Parasite Eve]
Sustenance:
[Breakfast] Cheese toast
[Lunch] Cabbage rolls and wheat bread
[Dinner] Burger steak in mushroom gravy with rice
[Coffee] Venti Mocha Frappuccino with Valencia syrup. Double blended.
Current Read:
-None right now; finished Wormwood and The Secret Garden

Classes have been suspended since Monday, and the monsoon rains have not stopped. It has been raining all day. This kind of rain, of course, made students want classes to be suspended again tomorrow.

I was annoyed to receive a Y!M forward message that was basically a prayer for more rain so that classes would be suspended again. They did not consider, however, that there are four cities and municipalities that are already underwater. They did not consider that many families in Marikina are being displaced by the raging waters of the Marikina River. They did not consider that many small businesses are suffering because the floods are keeping customers from coming. They did not consider that the La Mesa and Wawa dams are bursting at the seams. They did not consider that most of this disease-ridden water is saturated with trash, rat piss, dead animals, and many other unsavory substances. Of course they did not consider these things. They're busy sitting in front of the computer, surfing the net, playing their games and chatting idly with each other. They're not worried about the floodwater entering their houses. The only effect the rain would have on them is that they won't have class.

I was so enraged by the forward message that I wrote this reply.

Lord, please have mercy on the thousands of people being displaced by the floods. Have mercy on the tens of thousands of people living in depressed areas who have no way of escaping the floods that may result from our rivers and reservoirs overflowing. Grant thy grace to the teachers whose lesson plans are being disrupted by the dreadful weather, and pierce the hearts of the selfish and lazy students who wish that this weather may continue lashing the city at the expense of so many others who are less fortunate.

Shame on you. May God turn a deaf ear to your selfish prayers.

Castigating you with righteous indignation,
Your Black Lion