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Sep. 16th, 2001 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alixandreaI cried for the first time today. Not the single tear from the eye crying, proper sobbing. I think I'm still in shock really... I saw a news program, and a man was crying because he'd lost his whole office, and the other workers he had were insisting they had to go back to work, all they wanted to do was go back to work... Imagine, 700 people this guy knew, gone in an instant, 700 families devastated... And so many more... And yet, I also feel numb, because I know atrocities like this, with this many people dying, happen every year, all over the globe, people are dying of disease, starvation, oppression, poverty... And I cry for New York? I just can't explain this feeling...
I cried a second time when I described the beauty of London this morning, in the early sunlight as I was driven back to the station from Slimelight. I was telling my Mum about it, and she said, remember that, keep that memory close to you... Because, if we go headlong into conflict, it could escalate out of control, and before we know it, there will _be_ no London... I can't think of it, it could so easily have been us... Yet, there is death all over the world... I'm so confused...
I know that, if we do rush into conflict, and start to kill innocents, (it doesn't matter which race, colour or creed they are, they are _still _innocents_...) I will gladly be a part of the protests, something perhaps like during the Vietnam war... I don't know what to expect really... But if necessary, I will be there, I want to be involved, I don't want to sit idly by...
So, there's my thoughts for today. I start college tomorrow,maybe I'll be able to start writing songs now...
I cried a second time when I described the beauty of London this morning, in the early sunlight as I was driven back to the station from Slimelight. I was telling my Mum about it, and she said, remember that, keep that memory close to you... Because, if we go headlong into conflict, it could escalate out of control, and before we know it, there will _be_ no London... I can't think of it, it could so easily have been us... Yet, there is death all over the world... I'm so confused...
I know that, if we do rush into conflict, and start to kill innocents, (it doesn't matter which race, colour or creed they are, they are _still _innocents_...) I will gladly be a part of the protests, something perhaps like during the Vietnam war... I don't know what to expect really... But if necessary, I will be there, I want to be involved, I don't want to sit idly by...
So, there's my thoughts for today. I start college tomorrow,maybe I'll be able to start writing songs now...
