Japan

[greygirlbeast]

I've been experiencing a sort of mounting guilt over not having even mentioned the disaster in Japan since the 11th, when it began. As I said earlier, I have no friends or family or any sort of acquaintances in Japan. But I do have a friend who's girlfriend is in Tokyo, and when I spoke to her a couple of nights back, there had been no news...and I

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I think it's a matter of perspective - Japan has been around for more than a few years - and frankly, it'll be around for quite a few more - one of the things that I've been working through is my anxiety over what has occurred, as in, in the broadest terms, "OhMyGod Japan got beat up by the earth, nothing will be the same!" - and that same thought carries with it all the things that Japan has offered to me, in terms of film and culture and anime and such - that sort of thing will still be around, and probably will still be - but it will be colored by this tragedy.

As to my feelings of anxiety and guilt, well, yeah, there is a certain level of desire to help, and throwing money at Japan will more than likely help - but at least as far as I'm concerned, I can do nothing. The emotion I feel because of the tragedy in Japan is because I have a cultural connection to Japan - frankly, had Haiti or India had more resonance in my world-culture-view, I would have felt worse during THEIR earthquakes and tsunamis. But that's the nature of the beast we call world culture. We can;t all love everyone all the time.

So what you feel, you are not alone. All of it, the helplessness, the loss, the thought that something somewhere in the Japan that you know has now been washed away - I feel this too. But then...

Japan prevails.

[greygirlbeast]

Japan prevails.

For now, I would say it abides.