"okay i actually really like britney spears new song"

[the_great_elk]

The weekend was kind of lame, not gonna lie. Saturday I had work in the morning in Winston-Salem, then I drove all the way home and ended up being late to the Japanese party (also very, very tired). I stayed for the movie though I slept through parts of it; I'd already seen it senior year for my pop culture class. 笑の大学 is actually a really

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[snowflakie06]

And you know, if I weren't so addicted to my computer, I wouldn't have known about bin Laden until much later because, as it turns out, I can focus when I want to. So there.

*gigglefit* I think the amount of time between my overhearing it on the news because my mom was watching it and reading it on my f-list was like two minutes, tops.

My family has never seemed to be big on the whole, "I was there at a historical moment!!1!" thing - in fact, they don't really seem to talk about those kinds of things.

My parents are the same, which is a shame :\ I only know where they were when the planes hit the Twin Towers because I was old enough to understand what was going on. Anything else, I can only guess. My grandma is also pretty much the same, she hasn't ever mentioned where she was at the time of any historical moment but she's talked about what she was doing afterward and how it affected her. Like she talks about being an Air Raid Warden in WWII and how that was kind of funny because she was this small girl who got to boss around older people but that's about it.

So anyway, the most I've got is that I was lying on the couch in my pajamas watching In the Mood for Love, then I got up to check Facebook for some inexplicable reason and saw just a few posts, then double-checked it on Twitter to be sure. Then I went back to watching my movie.

My story is even worse. I just overheard the news from my mom watching it and continued to watch my tv show (Growing Pains) the entire time.

Also because in my mind, it's not really important where I was or what I was doing, since I'm a bit of a pessimist and see this more as a symbolic change, rather than a real one.

I haven't made up my mind on how much it's going to change things, I honestly keep thinking that the only change is that a single horrible man who wasn't dead now is. I mean, it's not like there aren't still others like him out there. People will continue to think like him and hold him in high regard, much like there are still those out there who think of Hitler as a hero. I think my mindset right now is that this doesn't mean the war is over, but rather far from it. So yeah, my pessimist side (that's sort of based in reality I guess) is really showing through with this one.

And wow that's a long comment, sorry about that!

[the_great_elk]

History is a funny thing, and the way we think about it even more so. I find it so odd that I will never be able to re-see my Facebook newsfeed from last night, even though within it was all of our first reactions to news that history (maybe) will see as generation changing. To be honest, I imagine most of us were going about our normal lives with no reason to learn about the news - maybe we were out, or at the gym, or cooking, or watching DVDs.

[snowflakie06]

I think perhaps if something bigger had been announced and not just the death of a single man (ie the end of the war) then more people probably would have been doing more than just stopping for a few minutes to see what was up, make sure it wasn't a hoax, etc. But seeing as it's just the death of one man, albeit one who's done a lot of damage, I for one am not about to go celebrating and it feels weird to hear/see people saying things like 'omg yay he's dead!' Of course, that might just be me and my attitude towards death. I don't like the idea of celebrating or relishing it, no matter who it is. Maybe if he'd been captured then I'd be going 'hurray, they caught him!' rather than wondering 'what does this mean?'

[the_great_elk]

I think that's an interesting point. I wonder if I - or more of the world - would have responded differently if he had been captured. I also wonder how worried we should be about retaliation, or those kinds of things.