Some food for thought

hitting close to home

usually when things happen halfway across the world it never really affects me on a personal level. i mean yeah that it's terrible news, but i can't really feel the anxiety and the worry that other ppl feel when they know someone amidst the crisis. i suppose you can say i've always been "lucky" for lack of a better word.

but now there's a new situation to worry about, a new crisis on our hands. (it never seems to end does it?) France is falling apart, riots are breaking out everywhere; stores are being robbed, cars are being vandalized, buildings are being burned, and there's a curfew in affect in certain areas. sounds like a scene from out of a movie, but then again everything seems like that nowadays. and normally it wouldn't phase me, but this time it has, there's one small difference with this situation from every other world catasprophe: my brother is in France. this time it's hitting close to home.

at first the riots were mainly in Paris, but they've spread into the city where my borther is currently living. riots are breaking out and there are police everywhere. i'm not sure he'll ever really tell us how serious the situation is, i can only hope and pray that it isn't as bad as it seems and that it all ends soon. i mean what else can i do? NOTHING, there's nothing else i can do.

posted by sillypoo @ 3:13 PM