Reply #8: I hope, very hard, that she will heal

[Nothing Without Hope]

If she can heal completely both from what the natural disaster did to her and her whole world AND from what this deranged monster did to her AND having it in the global news, she will become such a beacon of compassion to other people who have greatly suffered. I hope she can find a way to rise out of all this suffering without becoming hardened rather than wise. Hard to think of a much bigger challenge than this, unless she's pregnant too. I didn't read the rest of the story to see if her family was killed.

How can anyone not feel empathy for this young girl? I hope some of the people in this country who are saying that the people in the regions devasted by the tsunamis either deserved it or simply have to take care of the aftermath themselves read her story and feel their humanity reemerge.

As for the man who did this to her, he was clearly NOT acting like a normal human being. Whether he is a sociopath or deranged or something else permanent or temporary, I can't say, but I hope he brutalizes no more victims and comes to realize the horror of what he did.

(By the way, I like your prayer flags. Nice thought to have them flapping in the electronic ether. Considering all your posts, there's a lot of them out there by now!)