history repeating

i was there when it happened in new york, and i was here in england when it happened in london. mercifully, this time, i'm not brushing shattered building out of my hair, but i'm going to have to say...i don't even know what to say.

as biscuit said, it was hard enough coming to terms with it when it happened to us. but then, i suppose, on a certain level, this kind of thing isn't a question of US or THEM. i'm not sure we get to make those kinds of distinctions anymore. when this stuff happens, it happens to all of us. most of us are just lucky enough to be physically outside of the blast radius.

it's so strange that this kind of event brings out the best and the worst in people. the worst in the fact that the event even happened, the best in the way the people on the scene react, how they interact with one another and rise to the occasion. it's a shame that it has to come to a horrible, destructive attack for us to show one another that it's okay, that we CAN take care of each other as a species, that we don't have to be cruel all the time.

this entry makes no sense. but then, neither does causing the death of other people in order to make a statement.