8.9

Remember how awhile back I commented that the earth seems pissed at the inhabitants?

Have you watched the footage? Can you even begin to imagine the nightmare? Buildings, on fire, being carried through cities and towns. People swept away by an unforgiving tide. Destruction and tragedy at such a massive scale.

And Japan is one of the better prepared countries, if anyone can be prepared for this sort of event.

J summed up one of the emotions he and I both have about tragedies such as this one. All he and I can do is feel bad. Yes, we can and do donate to causes such as the Haiti Relief fund. But when things like this happen to wealthier countries, we can't even expect to contribute, in any real way, through donations. Impotence and helplessness mixed with terror is all we have. And then we ask ourselves, 'how must those citizens who are living through this feel?'

And then, because I can, I turn the channel to something to take my mind off of things. Because I can. Because I am among the most fortunate girls in the world and, like most humans, when things do not affect me directly, it is oh so easy to look away to close at hand comforts.

But I shall continue my campaign to maintain perspective and not bitch about daily minutia without being dead aware that I am, indeed, among the most fortunate girls in the world. As a friend on Facebook said, maybe now Charlies Sheen will give it a rest.