This is heartbreaking.
Sep. 1st, 2005 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobellehttp://www.slate.com/id/2125352?nav=wp
This grinding sense of helplessness.... I can't wrap my mind around the horror of lives terrifyingly lost. I don't know how to process that. But the loss of buildings, places, things-- that I know too well. I can catch an echo of it, a reflection like a movie on the other side of a screen. I've lost things. We all have. We can figure out how to extrapolate, and imagine what it must be like.
We're strong. We can rebuild. But the shock has to wear off first.
This grinding sense of helplessness.... I can't wrap my mind around the horror of lives terrifyingly lost. I don't know how to process that. But the loss of buildings, places, things-- that I know too well. I can catch an echo of it, a reflection like a movie on the other side of a screen. I've lost things. We all have. We can figure out how to extrapolate, and imagine what it must be like.
We're strong. We can rebuild. But the shock has to wear off first.