Quakes in Christchurch, floods in Queensland (and most other states of Australia), quakes in Japan and the aftermath of those quakes: the tsunamis around the Pacific and the nuclear emergency at Fukushima...
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There is nothing else I could possibly be more grateful for today than "my world". My husband, my children, all my family, my friends, my home...
I can go to the shops and buy what I need (not everything I want but...) and know that I will not suddenly be charged $10 for a loaf of bread or litre of milk. Ok, $9.98 for a kg bananas is a rip off too but it is one I can understand and an item I can live without.
I can breath clean air and I can leave the house without fear. No fear for my health nor for my safety.
I can sleep at night without being terrified, waiting for the next onslaught of shaking.
I can walk through my city, my suburb, and recognise it. There are no broken buildings, there is no silt covering everything
It almost feels like this is a really bad movie we are all stuck in. A movie with a totally unbelievable plot about disaster after disaster. The only difference being, I am not a heroine trying to save the world as everything crumbles around me, just missing me by millimetres. I am an onlooker. Helpless. Unable to do anything but watch and shed tears.
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I so get what you're saying/writing. I feel so helpless and scared at the moment too. It's hard to forget about, isn't it? And hard to comprehend.
ReplyDeleteI think we almost need a counsellor to tell us all how to process it... how not to live in fear ourselves.
Thanks for your thought-provoking post. x
I understand completely. I actually blogged very similarly on this. It's just incomprehensible.
ReplyDeleteI think it's so important that we stop and appreciate how lu ky we are. There are so many people hurting right now. x
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