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It doesn't matter -where- you are
Mar. 12th, 2011 07:09 amThe quake(s) have shaken not just the land that people in Christchurch built their homes on, but also the foundations that Christchurch people - wherever in the world they may be - built their lives on.
There's so much else happening in the world but this affects us, now. And it's -not- a small or petty thing, it challenges, destroys even, our belief that "these things don't happen here". It severs a connection between our mental maps of where (we) grew up and the reality in one dramatic, media-enhanced blow. The old say "you can never go back" is inflated to impossible proportions and crashes down upon us at a time not of our choosing.
Houses tangibly can and will be repaired/rebuilt, but where do we even start with the other?
There's so much else happening in the world but this affects us, now. And it's -not- a small or petty thing, it challenges, destroys even, our belief that "these things don't happen here". It severs a connection between our mental maps of where (we) grew up and the reality in one dramatic, media-enhanced blow. The old say "you can never go back" is inflated to impossible proportions and crashes down upon us at a time not of our choosing.
Houses tangibly can and will be repaired/rebuilt, but where do we even start with the other?
