London Burning

Technorati Tag(s): London explosions

The thing is, I sympathize with those who lost their loved ones in the London blasts, but I can't quite find any shock in my heart at all.

A little grief, perhaps, that terrorism is still so rampant, but nothing else.

I've seen too many bomb blasts happen in my country to garner enough emotion. That's the simple truth.

After you've seen men burn people alive, I don't know, you tell me, just how much should I care about a bomb in a country so many, many, many days' journey away?

Make no mistake, I don't mean to sound like I'm pro-terrorism or anything. Any time someone loses his life through no direct consequence of his own actions--or aging--it's terrible.

And when the cause of death is man-made disaster it's especially more pungent than, say, a tsunami.

But--as I have said so many times--everything I can say about these blasts has been said before.

These blasts have been done before.

May the ones injured get well soon, may there be no more blasts.

But I find it rather hard to convince myself to find a lot of faith to support the latter. Sorry for sounding so goddamn pessimistic.