Chaos

Well it seems that another monster hurricane is barreling its way to the gulf coast once again, just 3 short weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit. It is almost unfathomable to me the thought of another hurricane with similar intensity hitting again this season. How cruel is it to have people go through 2 of those storms in a short period of time. Perhaps it is my twisted perspective but it seems to me that more bad stuff is happening lately. There's the war in Iraq, talks of North Korea not wanting to give up their nuclear power, the tsunami was last year and it devestated several countries, and now we've had several particularly bad hurricanes lately, most recent being the famous Katrina. So many lives lost, so many people whose homes, lives, jobs, etc. were destroyed, and so much chaos. With all of this discord, increasing violence, it's rather disheartening just watching the news. Perhaps it's just that we have more technology now and we know about things on a worldwide basis. One hundred and fifty years ago we wouldn't have been able to turn on the TV and watch the news about the tsunami overseas, and we certainly wouldn't have been so aware of what was going on in the wars overseas. Volunteer efforts wouldn't be able to be so widely spread and we wouldn't be as knowledgeable about the crime rates, or about the chaos in other places. Is ignorance really bliss? I don't know. I wonder if the world has changed so much that it has become a worse place or if we just simply know too much these days. I just know that for my sanity I have to turn off the tv, go visit my friends and family, remember why I started my job in the first place, and do things that I enjoy so that I can focus on the positive. No matter how bad things are, someone has to have them worse than you.