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I don't seem moved by this at all. Perhaps it's because, if the even doesn't directly effect me, it's hard for it to affect me at all. Sept. 11, Bosnia, Tokyo earthquake, even the California earthquake in the 90's...none of that moved me at all.
Any number of people can leave your life at any moment. The friend from school that you knew for your whole life, well, they go off to college. You never see them again. The guy down the hall from you that you became friends with, well, he gets transferred across the country. No more communication. People disappear from our lives every day...and yet we don't often act as if they were dead, even though the amount of contact with them is equal.
Mass diasters, perhaps, seem less painful than individual events. There was a really bad car crash right outside my house on Christmas eve; family died...that was moving. 100,000 people dead across the world? I'm sorry, I just can't feel it.
I wish the best for all the families that were hurt by this, but I'm just happy that it hasn't happened here.
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"I've made only one mistake in my life. But I made it over and over and over. That was saying 'yes' when I meant 'no'. Forgive me."
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