Octillus wrote:Honestly words to not express. It hurts sitting in an office where people are just gabbing about the iPad 2 all day when real shit is going on.
The harbor in my hometown actually got pretty messed up by the tsunami. They're saying around a couple million in damages, and 4 people were swept away, though only one person is still missing.
I didn't really want to talk about this because it seems petty compared to what's going on, and I don't presume to even begin to compare to any of the toll or devastation, but I had a bit of a scare this morning.
I walk to work every day on this two-mile stretch around a lagoon, with the coastal highway of the bay side of San Francisco on the other side of the road. It's absolutely beautiful and the best way to start the morning in the world. You see all kinds of marsh birds and rabbits and if you're lucky, a few hawks. So, I listen to music and rock all the way to where I work, an office building in a very lovely office park on the bay.
Anyhow, about one mile down the walk, I get an urgent call from my mom who is frantically telling me that I'm walking in a Tsunami warning zone minutes before it's supposed to hit the coast. Mind you, I have no way of verifying this, and I am smack-dab in the middle of nowhere basically. Now, I figure on my left side there's an extremely busy highway, and on my right, a still body of water. Basically, I feel like I'd be okay, but I have this moment of reflection and decide that my only course of action is to move a bit more urgently to work, because well, you never know.
I get to Sierra Point (the office park), and it's just basically high tide with a fast current. I feel like such a jackass. I laugh a little bit, I cry a little bit
Now, I understand why she was frantic, because Santa Cruz did actually get pretty messed up by the aftermath of the Japanese quake, but I feel like a jackass for having this rush of self-importance in the wake of a real tragedy.
And what do I do when I get here? I talk about Dragon Age, and the iPad and a bunch of shit without meaning.
Sigh. This office is making me go a little stir crazy today.
Sorry for the double-post!
But I just read this and dude, you've got nothing to feel bad about! I would have been scared too!
But seriously, hope whatever you mentioned the other day that's grinding your gears relents a bit.
