Comments on: What’s The Right Amount of Sadness For a Disaster on An Unincorporated American Territory? http://maxlancecomedy.com/whats-the-right-amount-of-sadness-for-a-disaster-on-an-unincorporated-american-territory/ Movies, news, sports and sex explained with dick jokes Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kim http://maxlancecomedy.com/whats-the-right-amount-of-sadness-for-a-disaster-on-an-unincorporated-american-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Kim Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:25:38 +0000 http://modernjew.wordpress.com/?p=797#comment-48 Hi Max. Came across your post as I was reading some of the other blog entries about the tsunami in Samoa. I think what it comes down to is feeling empathy for any country, whether it is ours, "ours with an asterisk", or another altogether. I am a full-fledged, full-blooded continental-dwelling American who happened to be in Phuket, Thailand when the Indian Ocean Tsunami happened in 2004. My friend and I survived, but did return to the states, back to our jobs and homes in NYC, with first-hand, all-too-vivid accounts of what had happened that day and in the days that followed. I think it's simply about empathy for the human beings who lost their lives, homes, loved ones and livelihoods as opposed to whether or not it's appropriate to measure the degree of "sadness for an American Territory" you may or may not be experiencing. Maybe some of this was tongue in cheek. One of the lessons "my tsunami" taught me was to not sweat the small things and above all, to have empathy for those who are not as lucky as I have been. Best regards, Kim Selby http://afterthewaves.wordpress.com/ PS - Nice choice of theme. Hi Max. Came across your post as I was reading some of the other blog entries about the tsunami in Samoa.

I think what it comes down to is feeling empathy for any country, whether it is ours, “ours with an asterisk”, or another altogether.

I am a full-fledged, full-blooded continental-dwelling American who happened to be in Phuket, Thailand when the Indian Ocean Tsunami happened in 2004. My friend and I survived, but did return to the states, back to our jobs and homes in NYC, with first-hand, all-too-vivid accounts of what had happened that day and in the days that followed.

I think it’s simply about empathy for the human beings who lost their lives, homes, loved ones and livelihoods as opposed to whether or not it’s appropriate to measure the degree of “sadness for an American Territory” you may or may not be experiencing.

Maybe some of this was tongue in cheek. One of the lessons “my tsunami” taught me was to not sweat the small things and above all, to have empathy for those who are not as lucky as I have been.
Best regards,
Kim Selby
http://afterthewaves.wordpress.com/

PS – Nice choice of theme.

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