My mom and dad took a mission trip to Thailand after the tsunami of 2004 that took 230,000 lives in 14 countries and affected so many others. My mom was a schoolteacher and my father a pastor/professor. When they came back they spoke of many things from this far away land. One that stuck with me was a picture they took in a village they visited. What caught my attention was the tops of the houses that had metal rebar sticking out toward the sky.
My immediate concern was for the children and the hazard the rebar could pose if they played on the flat roofs of these houses. My dad said these people dreamed of a better life with more prosperity. They built their houses with the rebar sticking out so, in the future when life is better, they can build onto their existing house.