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July 08, 2005
london, inevitably
last year i was over in london, visiting my former housemate james. he had received a job interview request, somewhere in west london, fulham or something. james complained to me that he didn't want to travel on the tube for fear of terrorist attack.
i laughed at him. i guess by living in the netherlands for some years, where there's generally less fear, i didn't know what to think of james and his fear of terrorist attacks. this is not the london i used to live in: i roamed the city freely, going wherever i pleased.
at the time, this was what i told james: "look, london is going to get hit no matter what. you won't know when or where or how, but it seems inevitable. you can't live in fear all the time, you just got to believe that god would guide you not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."
now that all of this has happened, it's really scary, and i don't know what to think. if i think back to what i told james, it's a pretty terrible place we live in when i take bomb attacks as something that'll inevitably happen to my hometown. :(
Posted by Yasmina at July 8, 2005 12:18 PM
