Fate is never in your hands, it is geographically determined

Han yang, Yuting and I went to the World Press Exhibition yesterday. The photos were hauntingly beautiful and emotional (obviously, since they are the best of the best photos). In the words of James Colton, the photo editor of Sports Illustrated, "great photos give a few answers while raising a few more questions". And that is what these photos had achieved. The faces of the people and their stories were immortalised in these photos, making one ponders on how fragile life can be. Seeing a bodiless head, a crying orphan Iraqi girl, a marathon in the desert, the bloody polar bear, these photos readily imprint on my mind.
We are all humans, yet our fates are never the same. In fact, fate has never been in our own hands. Funny, fate seems to be more influenced by geography. In Malaysia, we are living comfortably (though plagued by snatch thieves, robbery, murders etc.), in Iraqi, Middle East, Acheh, people are overwhelmed by war and tsunami and barely surviving.
All in all, I know I am very blessed to be in the right place.