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Trisk · 12-30-2004, 09:29 PM

I don't really feel any type of deep loss or depression or anything horrible over the tsunami either...but I do sort of gain a new perspective on things from hearing the story. As others have said, thinking about how so many people could die at once from one random event in nature is kind of scary. It makes you realize how small you are...how unpredictable things can be...

The fact that this was a tourist area somehow makes it even more amazing to me. When I think about all the people who thought they'd take a nice vacation and lost everything - loved ones, all their belongings...literally everything...then i do start to feel something.
Because it wasn't even just people living their day-to-day lives. This was, for many, supposed to be a nice break from everyday life.
And instead, a tsunami's what they got.

But you can't (or at least I can't) let events millions of miles away from you touch you so much that they effect your own day-to-day life. People are dying and mourning all over the world but for me, life goes on. Even for the mourners, life goes on. If I let every single tragedy I heard about each day affect me, I would never be happy.

As for people saying that the US should "support it's own before supporting people miles away"...I REALLY don't agree. This was a tourist area where many Americans visit each year, first of all. I'm sure there were some Americans there at the time. Second of all, if you want to talk about people who have no choice in their place in life, the people who got hit by that tsunami are it. Do you think they wanted to be hit by a tsunami? Hell no! They were just trying to enjoy a nice vacation. At least the people in the US have a chance at free education and class mobility so that they CAN attain all those things that you seem to think our govt should be giving to THEM instead of to people dying in a natural disaster miles away from us.
I think the people dying NOW are in more immediate need of the money than many of those people who don't have free health care.

Oh, and I really hope you were joking RangerDick.

12-30-2004, 09:29 PM	#34 (permalink)
Trisk Insane	I don't really feel any type of deep loss or depression or anything horrible over the tsunami either...but I do sort of gain a new perspective on things from hearing the story. As others have said, thinking about how so many people could die at once from one random event in nature is kind of scary. It makes you realize how small you are...how unpredictable things can be... The fact that this was a tourist area somehow makes it even more amazing to me. When I think about all the people who thought they'd take a nice vacation and lost everything - loved ones, all their belongings...literally everything...then i do start to feel something. Because it wasn't even just people living their day-to-day lives. This was, for many, supposed to be a nice break from everyday life. And instead, a tsunami's what they got. But you can't (or at least I can't) let events millions of miles away from you touch you so much that they effect your own day-to-day life. People are dying and mourning all over the world but for me, life goes on. Even for the mourners, life goes on. If I let every single tragedy I heard about each day affect me, I would never be happy. As for people saying that the US should "support it's own before supporting people miles away"...I REALLY don't agree. This was a tourist area where many Americans visit each year, first of all. I'm sure there were some Americans there at the time. Second of all, if you want to talk about people who have no choice in their place in life, the people who got hit by that tsunami are it. Do you think they wanted to be hit by a tsunami? Hell no! They were just trying to enjoy a nice vacation. At least the people in the US have a chance at free education and class mobility so that they CAN attain all those things that you seem to think our govt should be giving to THEM instead of to people dying in a natural disaster miles away from us. I think the people dying NOW are in more immediate need of the money than many of those people who don't have free health care. Oh, and I really hope you were joking RangerDick.