A Welcome

[danaeris]

Glancing over everyone's journal entries, I feel like everyone is a bit off, a bit on edge. Everyone's journal entries taste a little different. I know I'M in an altered state. But I think everyone else is too. I think we're all just a few degrees in a different direction than we normally are. It's the energy in the air, it's the constant knowledge, nagging at the back of our minds, of what is going on in the world.

Right now, people we know are being arrested

What was I working on? Oh yes, that article on healthy supermarket shopping.

Right now, people we don't know but could are dying

Don't forget to eat slowly---fast eaters tend to overeat.

Right now, the world as we know it is melting to reveal something bright and terrible

I have food. Lucky me. FOCUS! I need to finish this draft...

That was yesterday. But yesterday was part of today's present, this never-ending time of over-awareness of the world. I can feel the web of people that connects humanity crying out. They are all pulling in different directions, but none of them are truly happy with this. If I become too aware of it, I feel I will be torn apart by it.

Welcome to War.

Comments

[kaidevis.livejournal.com]

I can sympathize with this 100%

[koga.livejournal.com]

This is not war.

War is a contest in which you do not know if you are going to win. War is a fight for survival. War is an inexcapable postion that one is forced in to. People you know are being arrested for taking a good point, and using it to shut down a city. Hell, /I'd/ beat thier ass and toss em in jail if I worked in Downtown SF. What gives you the right to hurt my bussiness, keep me from my job and disrupt my life with your views?

This is not war. This is Foriegn Policy, Corporate Style.

AG.

[catling.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you, honey. Distracted. Distressed. I feel it out there and I keep being on the verge of tears. I feel my subconscious quietly deadening my empathy so that I can actually function.

We've all got each other. That's important right now.

*hold*
*strokes hair comfortingly*

[dragon-spirit.livejournal.com]

War is hell. Ask any veteran. Nobody really wants a war to be going on right now, even if they support it. It's hard on everyone, but somehow we just have to keep going. We'll probably survive to tell our grandkids (or our friend's grandkids at least) about what life was like during these times. We're living history right now.