I'm sorry, Japan.

[bee_york]

I never posted about Japan. Not on here, nor on Facebook. I haven't been talking about it at all, because honestly, it bothers me WAY too much. I got sick to my stomach reading the first dozen or so articles about it, and it got so bad that I had to stop reading about Japan, period. Obviously, it's sad as fuck when a tragedy happens like this in ANY place, like Haiti. Or New Orleans. Or the tsunami in southeast Asia. But just as obviously, it's so much worse when it's a place that your heart belongs to. It's too painful to read or think about. Luckily, and amazingly, everyone I know who is from Japan and/or lives there is either a) not in the Tokyo region; b) WAS in the Tokyo region but amazingly wasn't when it happened, or c) not in Japan at all right now. So, I am sooooooooooooo happy and relieved for that, to put it utterly mildly. But omg. Japan. I'm so sorry, Japan. What else can I say?! :(

And so, that's what I think about this whole Japan thing, since so many people have been asking me. Honestly, I think it's a pretty stupid thing to ask. What do I think about what's happening in Japan? Really? What do you think I think? Ugh. :/

Comments

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

I hear you on that last part. Lots of things in the news everyday are heart-breaking, but, like, there's nothing to be done about them, you know? There's only so much use that the information has.

Not that I'm saying those things shouldn't be reported on or whatever, it's just, like, if you hear about a family killed by the father/husband in a murder-suicide, say, or a country devastated by a natural disaster, all you can do is be sad about it and then go on with life. :/

[lostsailors.livejournal.com]

Japan is really hard to handle, just like the other tragedies mentioned. I don't know how I would cope if I had personal ties. I started having nightmares and was getting way too emotional as I was obsessively checking the news, I had to back off as well.

[phoenixblur.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way Marina. When I first head about I was SHOCKED and my stomach was doing flip flops. Luckily, all the people (okay 1) I know in Japan are fine as well. I never posted about it mostly because it just felt useless. Like, what is me posting about how I feel going to do about it? That mixed in with how terrible a tragedy it was, yeah.