I just wanted to take a minute to talk about the tremendous grief people are experiencing in that small country on the other side of the world.
A lot of the time we are desensitized when it comes to the tragedies of others. Especially if they happen very far away from us to people we don't know. I don't know anyone related to this tragedy. I don't even really know anyone Korean. But I do know that I feel a very serious sadness setting itself uncomfortably over my shoulders at odd hours of the day. I wonder if its possible that so many hearts are feeling so much pain, that I can feel it too just because I'm a part of this world. My heart literally hurts too, and it reminds me that we are all connected, even if we aren't.
I was out to dinner last night surrounded by people jovially dancing to music, drinking wine and enjoying their Saturday night. I sat there wondering how it was possible that they couldn't feel it too. That these peoples lives were completely unaffected while literally thousands of people in this same world are grieving to pain that will never ever end. Hundreds of children/teenagers were on that ship. Sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and friends that will never go to college.
They will never travel and get to know the world.
They will never have children or get married or maybe even experience a first love.
Like hundreds of Peter Pans, these kids will never grow up.
The difference is they never got to learn to fly.
And these Lost Boys all had fathers and mothers calling them home.
It is the saddest thing.
I saw the image of a class room of empty desks where flowers sit to honor the student who sat there a little over a week ago. I imagined the kids who sat there and how they would talk everyday when they came to school. I could picture them laughing or arguing or sitting quietly, listening to their teachers. I think of families sitting in their quiet houses, trying to wrap their heads around the idea that they're supposed to continue without their children. Right now...someone, right now...hundreds of them are feeling it. Right this second is the worst moment in their lives.
Is it okay that we're here not feeling it too?
How is it that our world is right side up while theirs is upside down?
For the sake of fairness, I'll promise to feel the echo as it carries all their sadness
And I hope that anyone who reads this, takes a moment to feel it too.
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