Japan
It's just too overwhelming, too many lives lost, too many people injured or lost. Even though I know one day, the BIG DAY is coming, but never had I thought what it had actually meant.
Just the day before, my friends and I were ranting on how anime companies are profitting much from us, how we are fangirling over characters and our reviews on different anime. Just the day before , I was eating sushi, I was helping my friends with their Japanese assignment and I was reading Japanese books. Suddenly, the sky seemed to crumple and the floors shattered.
It never seemed so real, so close so violent. The 2004 Asian Tsunami, the Si chuan Earthquake, the Haiti, they are there and I accepted it and was shocked when I heard but I could compose myself when the news sank in. But this disaster in Japan, it had never been more real. Maybe because it is Japan, maybe it's because it's the country where my friends and family are, maybe because it's the country I love, as with many others who echoed my view. We had always known Japan has Tsunamis, earthquakes but the impact had never been so great.
At least, everyone I know is alive and well. I grieve for the lost ones, my sorrow can't be defined. I want to fly back, to help them but my commitments here ties me down. I don't want to hear the news and be unable to help, that's too pitiful.
Just the day before, my friends and I were ranting on how anime companies are profitting much from us, how we are fangirling over characters and our reviews on different anime. Just the day before , I was eating sushi, I was helping my friends with their Japanese assignment and I was reading Japanese books. Suddenly, the sky seemed to crumple and the floors shattered.
It never seemed so real, so close so violent. The 2004 Asian Tsunami, the Si chuan Earthquake, the Haiti, they are there and I accepted it and was shocked when I heard but I could compose myself when the news sank in. But this disaster in Japan, it had never been more real. Maybe because it is Japan, maybe it's because it's the country where my friends and family are, maybe because it's the country I love, as with many others who echoed my view. We had always known Japan has Tsunamis, earthquakes but the impact had never been so great.
At least, everyone I know is alive and well. I grieve for the lost ones, my sorrow can't be defined. I want to fly back, to help them but my commitments here ties me down. I don't want to hear the news and be unable to help, that's too pitiful.