http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12784349/ It's really hard to worry about grades, and rent, and things like that when there are things like this happening in the world. Like I have been writingg this paper on Hope and how important is is and different peoples coping stratagies in the face of so much saddness...but man, you can write all these ways, then read things like this...and it's just...speechless.
thats real sad, makes you think about how the things in your life can be awhole lot worse thean you make them out to be, i hope they get the proper help so there wont be anymore added to the death toll
My roommates are from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Which incidentally is home to the worst war in human history since WW2. The whole country is very religious though. Perhaps thats a coping strategy.
Actually, it isn't hard at all. Because not paying rent gets you evicted and without a home, and poor grades and lack of ambition will leave you working at McDonalds the rest of your life. These affect you directly. Whereas these two thousand people dying, while tragic, aren't particularly important to me. People die every day for equally bad reasons, and it doesn't really affect me at all.
I guess. but working at mcdaonalds and beingg homeless has nothing on your home being torn to bits and having to see the bodies of everyone you love dead in the mud. and I'm not saying to stop doingg the thigngs that sustain your life here, just beingg conscious of how sometimes the thinggs we worry about are less then big deals. and I just can't help it, like my mind gets stuck in these stories...but I figure the best way to proactivley deal with it is so try to ease poverty and suffering in a persons own community...
But apathy and lack of empathy are not the same thing now are they. Apathy would be caring and not doing anything. This is just not really caring.
Meh. I still think people die every day in larger numbers than this, that these deaths are neither particularly cruel or tragic, and that the paper I'm writing write now matters much more to me. On the other hand, I don't expect millions of strangers to mourn my death either.
Me neither. I'm a tad puzzled why it isn't until this particular incident that the OP becomes distressed about death. There are far more tragic deaths that happen every day... deaths resulting from stupidity, greed, imperialist political meddling; but it's a big coastal storm offing 1700 people who likely couldn't have cared less about what anyone of us thinks about them that has unsettled the OP to the point of distraction from schoolwork and bills. I apologize if my skepticism is unfounded but it plants doubts as to the genuine level of concern when there are so many more worthwhile current world events to be concerned about that predated the tragedy in Bangladesh.
