tsunami coverage is depressing
i know it's the one year anniversary and all, but god damn i don't want to hear about it. every time those pictures come on tv it makes me want to cry. and i don't cry over news coverage.
i blame it on post traumatic stress.
when i was in phuket and khao lak i just worked my butt off to write a good story. i really didn't reflect on what i was seeing. how could i? if i did i would have broken down.
telling people about what i saw afterward was kind of depressing, but more fascinating because i found myself expelling details i wasn't even fully aware of when i witnessed them.
it was really hard when the hurricane hit and i went down south to cover that. so many parallels it was scary.
and now every time i turn on the tv i see pictures of people being washed away, the wreckage still left, the mass graves, the buddhist monks praying....
it really kills me.
i wasn't affected directly by that wall of water, so maybe i'll never understand the whole anniversary concept. to me it just seems cruel to replay so much of those news reels.
i blame it on post traumatic stress.
when i was in phuket and khao lak i just worked my butt off to write a good story. i really didn't reflect on what i was seeing. how could i? if i did i would have broken down.
telling people about what i saw afterward was kind of depressing, but more fascinating because i found myself expelling details i wasn't even fully aware of when i witnessed them.
it was really hard when the hurricane hit and i went down south to cover that. so many parallels it was scary.
and now every time i turn on the tv i see pictures of people being washed away, the wreckage still left, the mass graves, the buddhist monks praying....
it really kills me.
i wasn't affected directly by that wall of water, so maybe i'll never understand the whole anniversary concept. to me it just seems cruel to replay so much of those news reels.