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When we first heard about it, yesterday noon, they talked about "around 2000 having died".
By the same time today, that number had increased tenfold.
And they are still missing 30.000 people.
Ilúvatar gracious.
Yesterday morning, sketching an LJ Christmas post in my mind, I was going to complain about boring family gatherings, annoying relatives and my parents' incapability in reasonable gift-giving.
Yesterday afternoon, returned to my PC, after having heard the news, I dropped that and didn't post at all, not knowing what to do.
Considering all the terrible things happening in the world all the time, I feel really bad for the constant amount of bitching that priviledged me is not really entitled to. (And my bad conscience leads to more bitching, and then more bad conscience, and then more bitching, circulus vitiosus.) Considering how swiftly lives can crumble and existences lost, living in pretty much as much security as possible, I really should be less egoistic. I feel slightly bad because in all the Christmas trouble and the armour-making with my cousin I pretty much didn't think about it except at the full hour when the news came.
I can't change anything. But I'm sorry for all who lost a loved one, and for those who lost their home, and those otherwise involved.
Bad Ossë, no cookie.
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( Wer wird die sich sammelnden Wolken sehen, die Himmel sich wölben über fallende Hügel, die See sich erheben... )
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By the same time today, that number had increased tenfold.
And they are still missing 30.000 people.
Ilúvatar gracious.
Yesterday morning, sketching an LJ Christmas post in my mind, I was going to complain about boring family gatherings, annoying relatives and my parents' incapability in reasonable gift-giving.
Yesterday afternoon, returned to my PC, after having heard the news, I dropped that and didn't post at all, not knowing what to do.
Considering all the terrible things happening in the world all the time, I feel really bad for the constant amount of bitching that priviledged me is not really entitled to. (And my bad conscience leads to more bitching, and then more bad conscience, and then more bitching, circulus vitiosus.) Considering how swiftly lives can crumble and existences lost, living in pretty much as much security as possible, I really should be less egoistic. I feel slightly bad because in all the Christmas trouble and the armour-making with my cousin I pretty much didn't think about it except at the full hour when the news came.
I can't change anything. But I'm sorry for all who lost a loved one, and for those who lost their home, and those otherwise involved.
Bad Ossë, no cookie.
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( Wer wird die sich sammelnden Wolken sehen, die Himmel sich wölben über fallende Hügel, die See sich erheben... )
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