We've all heard about it. The earthquake. The tsunami. The nuclear power plant(s?). Japan has been thrown upside down by the Earth's tectonic plates. Yeah, that's right. A god doesn't hate them. Mother Earth doesn't want them gone. It just happens. The planet evolves. Shit happens.
The moment I read about the event, my mind clipped to the exchange students. I know a few Japanese on exchange and couldn't begin to imagine how they felt reading the information I was reading. Then, those exchangies in Japan and anywhere close. Their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandmas and granddads. What could they do? They went to call for their child with the worst on their minds. And I'm sure that one didn't/couldn't call back.
I'm not saying I don't feel for those people that were there. I just feel the connection with students across the world away from their homes and it hurts me to hear that those houses were wiped clean. Homes were wiped clean. A country, in a sense, wiped clean.
The number of people, humans with lives as basic as our own, is frightening. The final count could be over 10,000. Ten thousand. In a day. Sure, history has had worst. But that's why it's history.
Those affected by the earthquake and tsunami are in my thoughts and I wish them the best in recovering.
-Eddie
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