Ununique: Distant disaster

Posted 31 12 2004 - 17:04

» Distant disaster

As the catastrophe that happened in Asia is so far away from where I live, I have to admit that I have big problems trying to understand what actually is going on down there. I’ve seen pictures, I’ve read reports, but it’s all so distant and hard to grasp!

125,000 people dead – who can image such a number of graves? It’s just a number to me – a number which fills me with sorrow, but still a number. And the sorrow isn’t even that real, because I have problems to grasp the whole thing.

However, one of the things which has made the biggest personal (as opposed to big numbers and mass media reports) impression on me is these three posts from Jill: unlucky, missing and telling. Read the posts (in order), and it may make you grasp the whole thing a bit better too, if you have problems like I do.. And I really do hope Shyrin and her family is fine..

Of course, it does help for my sake that Jill is one of my favorite webloggers and always seems so real and honest. I don’t know if it had made the same impression on me if I had never read anything from her before..

Comments?

I definately found those weblog entries to make me have an emotional response towards the tsunamis, but I still cannot grasp the enormous number of people killed in this tragedy. The number is so big it’s really hard to truly understand how many there were until you can actually see it in some way—or at least some kind of representation of that 150,000. And so far unfortunately I really haven’t.
— Sky Jan 1, 3:13am #
Very sad indeed.

It was sad to hear it on the news,

But when it’s relevant to people you know, it couldn’t be worse.

Natural disasters are the most striking of all, because they’re so infrequent and cannot be accounted for in advance. It’s like it came straight out of the film “the day after tomorrow”

Being missing and dead are different things, and sometimes when you’re about to lose hope, and there’s no chance of your hopes coming true, they can pop up, out of nowhere, perhaps making you more grateful than ever.

That’s the one consellation I can give.

Wait it out.
— toi Jan 3, 10:25pm #

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