{"id":7302,"date":"2011-03-13T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=7302"},"modified":"2011-03-13T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T19:34:24","slug":"life-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/life-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn’t is weird to see people going on about their business while a disaster devastates \u00a0one part of the world and a ruthless massacre takes place somewhere else? If you follow twitter, the incongruous tweets illustrate how most people go right on advancing their agendas and talking about what they’re wearing or what they ate, NO MATTER WHAT.<\/p>\n

I know that humans are wired like this, wired for adaptation to nearly any \u00a0circumstances. Instead of celebrating this feature of humanity, I’ve always found it incredibly sad. People survive wars, torture, earthquakes, \u00a0amputations, every kind of loss. They learn to \u00a0absorb \u00a0these tragedies and and for the most past, we expect them to return to “normal.”<\/p>\n

Even if we can’t go to Japan to help out, should we shrug it off and go right back to slobbering over shoes or worrying about our Klout scores?<\/p>\n

I feel guilty, sad, angry, confused, and conflicted.<\/p>\n

In my own life, I can’t move on and get back to business. It feels like a sin to even consider it. \u00a0Resilience \u00a0seems like a cruel joke. \u00a0But that’s what \u00a0survival is about.<\/p>\n

I wish resilience for the \u00a0people of \u00a0of Japan, but less resilience for the people of twitter and elsewhere, who haven’t even missed a beat in the rhythm of their daily bullshit.<\/p>\n

Thoughts or \u00a0advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"