Wednesday, September 11th, 2002
9/11
I was surfing along and had a website ask “What are you doing to comemorate September 11th?”
The answer is the same thing I’ve been doing all along.
Carrying on.
I’m at work today as I was then, sitting at the same desk, though on a new computer. I have things to do and a life to lead and I’m getting on with it.
The world doesn’t stop for pain, no matter how big. If it did, it could never start again because the pain never goes away.
If we stop. it wins.
IT, not they. The indefinable black spot in the human soul that allows us to intentionally do such damage to each other over things as idiotic and fleeting as politics, religion, and race. It is what we struggle against, every day in big and small ways, everywhere. Nothing hurts it, except ignoring it. That’s the only way to win.
So I carry on. Doing work I hate, trying to fit in work I love, ignoring the hate around me. It’s funny how the addition of a new boogy-man has just added to the hate that was already there. It feeds on itself and grows larger. And I struggle against it. And I fail sometimes. And then I start struggling again. What else is there to do?
It hurts, of course it does. All hate hurts to who it isn’t coming from. It just hurts who it’s focussed on more (anti-U.S. from Canadians for goodness sake). I ignore it if I can and suffer through the pain when I can’t. And hope that these people stop and think about what they are doing. Realize that all their rage is focussed on stereotypes (I have yet to come across Anti-U.S. propaganda that actually applies to anyone I know).
What else is there to do?
By laura @ 9:12 am in Internet
