Lonely Loneliness

Perspective and terror

Question:

The WTC attack kind of makes my loneliness thing seem insignificant. My parents used to talk about where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I was in utero. Today, I was in bed. I left the house and went down to work for the sole purpose of being with others. Moods were somber, but the fear and anger and tension were there. For me, this was almost more frightening than the events themselves. There is a cathartic reaction in the works. I keep thinking of the line from an REM song: "It’s the end of the world as we know it." Then I think of the people who already know what it’s like to live with terror, how they work around it, accept it as a fact of life. Suddenly, I’m not as depressed about having no progeny. Now I’m staring at my computer screen wondering what affect this has had on others. Beside the anger, the fear. Beside the potentially brewing hatred and need for retribution. Simply, how has this event affected or rather changed others? Anyone care to share? I think this, as all such travesties do,  transcends national boundaries so don’t let this keep you from sharing. John

Response:

Mephistopheles wrote: > Simply, how has this event affected or rather changed others?

I think I will move upwind of the local nucle@r power pl@nt.  ObL has probably seen by people’s reactions that we haven’t got the message yet. > Simply, how has this event affected or rather changed others?

I think I will stay away from sporting events held in stadiums (or anyplace else that a hij@cked jet1iner can turn into spectacular news footage.) > Simply, how has this event affected or rather changed others?

I find that, if I turn off the sound on my TV, I don’t have to change at all.  All the carnage and devastated people look remarkably like the news clips from the Middle-e@st that we’ve been blithely tut-tutting for years. Disraeli

Response:

Mephistopheles <serp…@forbiddenfruit.com> wrote in message <news:3B9EC31B.93FDD4D0@forbiddenfruit.com>… > The WTC attack kind of makes my loneliness thing seem insignificant.

It rubs more salt into my wound that I have not one person I can talk to, so I can’t share this disaster with anyone, so I must bear it all alone. > … I left the house and > went down to work for the sole purpose of being with others.

I don’t have that option. I never do. There is nowhere in this world where I can go anywhere to be with anyone ever. So I stayed home, instead of going to the food bank I usually go to on Tuesday, and watched the replay of the second WTC hit just after it happened, then watched the first WTC collapse live but neither I nor the TV host realized what we had both seen until a minute or two later, then watched the second WTC collapse live and knew as it was happening what it was and was surprized because I didn’t think there was enough weight above the breakage to collapse the part below, then continued to watch totally alone with nobody to talk with until Thursday morning. You are fortunate, compared to me, to have a place where you can go to avoid being alone during a crisis. If I commit suicide, there is not one person in the world world I even want to tell, I’ll just do it and nobody will know for several months, and nobody will ever care, and nobody will miss me ever.

Response:

Hope springs eternal, fm. Catch your breath. We move on. Remember that the next phrase is "I feel fine." Anna G

Response:

 how has this event affected or > rather changed others? Anyone care to share?

     I think it’s gonna be rough for Arab-Americans the next two years. I’d just like to see them catch Bin Laden and turn him out to an angry mob.     I was reading this:     "Islam" means peace, kind of.  It is the same word as "Shalom" in Hebrew: peace be with you.  In Arabic it’s "Salaam" with a deep bow until the head touches the earth, signifying complete submission to the will of Allah, which might mean peace but not necessarily.                                             `___

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