When the Levee Breaks
The force of nature cares nothing for mankind’s fragile attempts to harness rivers or break the power of storms. We build levees, dikes, and dams, believing we can control what’s uncontrollable, but these structures are weak, and in the end, they always fail. When the levee breaks, the flood comes, swallowing the land whole, and all our efforts are erased. In the aftermath, we stand amidst the wreckage of homes, belongings, lives lost, drowning in the heavy realization of our vulnerability. The true tragedy lies not just in the devastation we see, but in our failure to grasp, until it’s too late, that we were never in control at all.
When the Levee Breaks
The force of nature cares nothing for mankind’s fragile attempts to harness rivers or break the power of storms. We build levees, dikes, and dams, believing we can control what’s uncontrollable, but these structures are weak, and in the end, they always fail. When the levee breaks, the flood comes, swallowing the land whole, and all our efforts are erased. In the aftermath, we stand amidst the wreckage of homes, belongings, lives lost, drowning in the heavy realization of our vulnerability. The true tragedy lies not just in the devastation we see, but in our failure to grasp, until it’s too late, that we were never in control at all.