Fragile world

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I wanted to write an entry about my new cool The Nightmare Before Christmas tea mug, about my lovely necklace and earrings and books that I got for gifts, and about my geeking at The Return of the King extended version....but all this turned to nothing when I just received news of a friends of mine's sister dying in the earthquake/tidal wave catastrophe in Eastern Asia.
She is one of the thousand unfortunate Swedish tourists in Thailand - at a popular tourist spot that even such reluctant travelers as my parents visited a couple of years ago. And those tourist numbers are of course just a small part among all the deaths of the people living in those areas...already poor people getting even poorer, homeless or dead.

I feel so bad about it all...but of course the impact is so much more real when it affects someone you know.

In spite of all this I want to pause and thank madralaoi, Morten, Pauline, Sofia and Hansen for the wonderful Christmas package I got from Sweden the other day. The Swedish booze mystery is solved, it was just a two-part package, and the other part contained the card, more booze, many spices (including saffron! I'll make more delicious saffron bread, something the Geeks family have become quite fond of!), and some Swedish magazines. You guys...this was such a lovely and thoughtful gift for an exile-Swede, and I became quite misty eyed and touched!

Take care and may the New year bring some good to all of you, in whichever part of the world you are!

Comments

[madralaoi.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't really take any credit for the idea as such, just that So asked if I wanted to be part of it and I wanted to. :)
My thoughts are with you, though, of course. :) Hope you have a good time and God Jul to you! :)

I think it's not "nothing" to want to talk about other things than the tsunami and the tragedy. Even when we have sorrow in our lives, we can still pause from it and have a good moment. It doesn't make our compassion disappear, I think. :)

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

It doesn't make our compassion disappear, I think.

yeah..I know it's silly to feel that way, but it sort of takes the energy out of such stuff as writing about small and good things on a personal me-level, for a while at least. I don't mind others doing it at all, and don't think they are less caring or anything...and hey...I can always get away with writing bad poetry anyway, as a way of expressing myself. ;)

I'm gonna meet Bjorn within a couple of weeks...and I just feel incredibly bad for him, that's all...(it was his youngest sister, and he was extremely fond of her...)

[madralaoi.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I feel for him aswell. I can't imagine losing my sister. :(

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

MEGAHUGS!!!! Yes, it does take a personal connection for us to really "get" disasters ... I think if we weren't wired that way, the entire species would have given up millions of years ago.

Glad to hear that you got treasures from loving friends and hope that you soon regain the mood to enjoy them as they were meant to be enjoyed.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

megahugs from Canada are always treasured!

Take care girl! And have a lovely New Years weekend!!