Life will never be the same.

Imagine you've got it made from birth. Your family owns agriculturally rich land and has for generations. It has provided enough money for you to educate your children who have moved off to urban centers for work that is not dirty or tough. Life isn't bad and your eldest son, now in his 50s, has stayed home to continue the tradition. You've modernized harvesting with the latest equipment to make up for the shortage of labor. Life is good.
Then it happens, before spring planting begins a massive earthquake spews a tsunami across your fields, destroying everything in it's path including your eldest son working there. Fate has spared you and your grandchildren who were safe at a school, but everything you had is gone. For good measure, to complete the destruction, much of the sea water lingers in your fields with no way to pump it back to the ocean.
As you read this, imagining yourself in this man's shoes, picture yourself living in a gymnasium with scores of others, including your grandchildren who cry for their parents and have nightmares.
This is not fiction. This is reality for thousands of victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. What are they to do? The hopelessness of their plight has driven several to suicide and more can be expected in a country with a tradition of suicide.
Much of the western media have moved on, covering the nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima, badly, or muckraking elsewhere distorting reality to sell advertising. I don't miss the celebrity journalists at all, but the world has an image of Japan being "rich" and able to spring back as it did after Kobe. This is a different story. An urban center is much more resilient than a rural area populated with senior citizens. They are going to need much more than a fighting spirit to embark on a new way of life.
Don't stop imagining what it would be like if it were you in this man's shoes.