Yep, when you hear a news like this, it really seems the whole world is coming to a pot. I know I had to be in Madrid a few weeks after the terrorist attack on the Atocha train station happened and I had to travel from there by train to Cordoba. I will confess that I was nervous and I actually missed the train because the security was just ghastly after the attack and I had the worst luck ever that day. And a large portion of the station was closed off and in pieces, so it was anything but a nice experience. It was even more terrible when my country was hit by a number of severe floods and I still worked as a journalist at that time - and just talking to people who spent their entire night waiting on the roof for the fire-department to save them, they'd lost everything - it was just a dreadful experience. And is it me - or are the planes falling off the skies these last two years like peaches!? Is it really so hard to maintain them properly and take them on a safer route that doesn't lead over the war-infested territory, just because that's cheaper!? Just... damn. Poor people and their loved ones. I guess the world had turned into such a global village, with travel so easy and cheaper, the information about what goes on in the world is faster and more graphic and journalism sometimes just feeds on bed news and it's piling up on people's collective consciousness, making everyone depressed. I don't know if there's actually more bad things going on than before, or we're just better informed about it, but it does make you feel like there's every day something going on that results in massive loss of life - it kinds of makes you depressed what kind of a scary world we're leaving to our kids. I mean, I was in Tunisia a few years back, completely care-free - and now even there isn't safe any more. I find it even more devastating when the disaster is caused by fellow humans, that's just terrible and so unnecessary! I mean - natural disasters such as floods and accidents like this unfortunate plane happen, but I think more and more grief in this world is caused by humans - why do we have to be such a destructive species?! :P I'm sorry this terrible accident coincided with your sister-in-law's premature passing - I guess it just aggravates the feeling of loss and sadness and that hole in your life that never quite goes away, doesn't it? Poor you, c'mon over here, a hug for you - and another, until you're better. That is so cool about the present! :) Isn't it great to have friends like that? Sometimes that's all it takes for you to want to pull the wagon some more. Cause some people, some events and some feelings are just worth it! :) Hugs, be better soon, OK?
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It was even more terrible when my country was hit by a number of severe floods and I still worked as a journalist at that time - and just talking to people who spent their entire night waiting on the roof for the fire-department to save them, they'd lost everything - it was just a dreadful experience.
And is it me - or are the planes falling off the skies these last two years like peaches!? Is it really so hard to maintain them properly and take them on a safer route that doesn't lead over the war-infested territory, just because that's cheaper!? Just... damn. Poor people and their loved ones.
I guess the world had turned into such a global village, with travel so easy and cheaper, the information about what goes on in the world is faster and more graphic and journalism sometimes just feeds on bed news and it's piling up on people's collective consciousness, making everyone depressed. I don't know if there's actually more bad things going on than before, or we're just better informed about it, but it does make you feel like there's every day something going on that results in massive loss of life - it kinds of makes you depressed what kind of a scary world we're leaving to our kids.
I mean, I was in Tunisia a few years back, completely care-free - and now even there isn't safe any more. I find it even more devastating when the disaster is caused by fellow humans, that's just terrible and so unnecessary! I mean - natural disasters such as floods and accidents like this unfortunate plane happen, but I think more and more grief in this world is caused by humans - why do we have to be such a destructive species?! :P
I'm sorry this terrible accident coincided with your sister-in-law's premature passing - I guess it just aggravates the feeling of loss and sadness and that hole in your life that never quite goes away, doesn't it? Poor you, c'mon over here, a hug for you - and another, until you're better.
That is so cool about the present! :) Isn't it great to have friends like that? Sometimes that's all it takes for you to want to pull the wagon some more. Cause some people, some events and some feelings are just worth it! :)
Hugs, be better soon, OK?