Every Problem Will Change You.
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets , directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 90,000–166,000. The population before the bombing was around 340,000 to 350,000. Approximately 70% of the city's buildings were destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged.
On September 17, 1945, Hiroshima was struck by the Makurazaki Typhoon. Hiroshima prefecture suffered more than 3,000 deaths and injuries, about half the national total. More than half the bridges in the city were destroyed, along with heavy damage to roads and railroads, further devastating the city.
Hiroshima was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament in 1949, at the initiative of its mayor, Shinzo Hamai (1905–1968). As a result, the city of Hiroshima received more international attention as a desirable location for holding international conferences on peace as well as social issues. As part of that effort, the Hiroshima Interpreters' and Guide's Association (HIGA) was established in 1992 in order to facilitate interpretation for conferences, and the Hiroshima Peace Institute was established in 1998 within the Hiroshima University. The city government continues to advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons and the Mayor of Hiroshima is the president of Mayors for Peace , an international mayoral organization mobilizing cities and citizens worldwide to abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons by the year 2020.
After all the challenges that hit the city of Hiroshima in 1945, it was rebuilt and even became a city of peace, despite the obvious fact that it was a city hit by the fury of war. Those challenges changed the city from being just a city to becoming a city of peace.
When you pass through trying times, have one thing in mind; at the end, you will be changed. Be ready for that change. Change in this world of ours is inevitable and despite the fact that every change first looks or feels awkward, we should welcome it
Take a mass of gold dust that sees the burning furnace of the goldsmiths forge and begins to fear at the thought of being cast into the furnace, little does it know that the heat would only refine it to become better and more valuable. That is a positive change.
In the same vein consider a sheet of metal under the impact of a heavier metal. If the impact is consistent enough, we know the sheet will never remain the same. However, the intent of the force behind the impact, will determine if the change is positive or negative.
Though people who come out of tough times understand this fact, that problems will change them and they make use of that knowledge to their own advantage. They position themselves to influence how it changes them. (That is the lesson for the next episode) So, it is only wise to wake up to the reality that you don’t remain the same after tough times.
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