Today we're expected to hit the 100's in Boston. On the drive to work and while stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, I had a moment of dejavu near the place that a taxi cab rear-ended me on Memorial Drive. It was a day or two after 9/11. There was a fairly dangerous situation that led to this accident, and luckily both of us were fine. I turned my lane change signal and we both moved to the side of the road.
It was an odd feeling. Perhaps a month before 9/11 I would have worried about the bump on my car fender. But I looked at the driver, and he looked at me, and we were both so shell-shocked about the events in NY that both of us were just happy to be alive. We shook hands, and expressed thanks. And both drove off as if nothing happened. Because nothing really happened of significance.
With all that the media overwhelmingly feeds us about the ongoing conflict in Lebanon and Israel, and although I personally live far away, I cannot help but think about how the lives of people on both sides of the border has changed for the worse. The simple artificiality of every day life likely gives way to what matters the most. It is sad and unfortunate that cataclysmic events are what serves as the best reminder of normalcy that is lost.
Posted by maeda at August 2, 2006 09:46 AM