Quote: you and where you are from (I'm in the U.S.), people seem to just say "oh how sad" and then go on like it was nothing. I have this uncanny
There is a reason why we do this though, JG. It is unspeakably tragic, as you say...but as I was saying to my mother just yesterday...I believe we are entering a time now where this type of incident is going to be occurring on at least a daily basis...If we were to allow all of it to affect us to the fullest possible extent, we would go insane...or at the very least, be constantly unhappy and fearful. We cannot function like that.
As horrible as it all is, if we are going to get through it, we need to learn to a degree to be able to detach...because I do believe that there is a lot more where this and September 11th came from. Yes it is important of course to help people where we can...but rather than always seeing it as the end, there is another way I am looking at this period lately.
I am looking at it in terms of the way one day transitions to another...There is twilight, there is evening, there is the deep black of night, and then there is the dawn of the new day. To carry this analogy forward, we are about to experience midnight...that time when the world is at its very darkest, and the time of fear and isolation seems the greatest. I do believe that in the next ten years the human spirit is going to be tested as never before in our history as a species...things are going to become very chaotic, very unstable, and very fearful...it's going to be rough. This is the time I think when Jesus spoke of that two women would be working at a well...one would be taken, and the other left.
What he also said however was that if we manage somehow to resist the fear and the despair...if we hold fast to whatever faith we have...we'll come through it intact. There are going to be more incidents like the one in Malaysia, and yes it is true that many, many, many people are going to pass over...I believe around 75% of the planet's current population, personally...and that is going to be extremely difficult to witness. For a little while there is going to be darkness, confusion, and terrible pain...but only for a little while. Remember the quote... "All these things too, will pass."
Look to the horizon...always to the horizon.
In time you will see the black lighten to grey, and the first rays of light creep over it.
(Some music that is good to listen to at times, if you've got eMule or another P2P program:-
Samwise The Brave, from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers soundtrack.
Better Times, by The Black Sorrows
In Time, by Robbie Robb
Faith of the Heart, by Russell Watson
Hallelujah, by Rufus Wainwright...from the Shrek sountrack.)