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Originally posted by Ramon de Ramon y Ramon:
Yes, it indeed sounds as if you had had/ were having a very emotionally stressful evening tonight, dearest Wendy.
But there is no reason for apologizing at all: neither for being not able to be your usual witty and mischievous self tonight nor for the fact that it took the horror a couple of days to fully sink into your soul, before you were fully able grasp the whole magnitude of these terrible events. But all of this also has a very unreal quality to it (unless, of course, for the ones directly emotionally - it still feels mostly as if I was watching an absurd movie. And people do react very differently to situations/events like these. I think we are both not the most impulsive types, so it takes us more time to react emotionally to anything than it would other, more impulsive people.
Sorry for the psychologizing ...
*Hugs*
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Ramon, I think it was watching on TV many family members of victims holding out pictures of lost loved ones in front of cameras, and begging anyone to help them find out where they are. A lot of these people don't want to think their loved one is dead. Maybe he/she is in a hospital somewhere, and hasn't been identified yet, etc. Unfortunately, the outlook is bleak, and those loved ones have already passed on. But their family still hangs on to hope, cause the alternative is too much for them to emotionally deal with. God I feel so bad for these people. I wish I could help them. I cannot. That sucks.
I'm crying for strangers lost tonight it seems.
Thank you Ramon for understanding, I know that it is different for you in Germany, hard to see the reality of it when you are so far away.
Here in the U.S., at least in VA, we have constant news coverage still going on at every single channel, so you find yourself seeing more than you wanted to. I still see this long haired young blond girl crying for her brother to be found, and a mother holding up a picture of her son (20) who she hasn't heard from since Tuesday morning before he went to work, etc. etc.. God, this is horrible.
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