That's how long it's been since the great Tohoku earthquake.
I think... not to jinx anything... things for me are pretty back to normal.
There still are aftershocks... don't know how long they'll continue and when we'll return to those days where earthquakes only happened like once a month or two... and not at the same strength.
But, overall... I'm good and barely stressed or on edge like I was for a good week and a half or more.
The plant if Fukushima has also settled down tremedously... and I believe they still have issues with it... but, I don't really hear about it like I used to. Either from the news... the web... friends... family... Facebook... Twitter... basically any means where I previously caught wind of the plant problem... they've all settled down and I haven't caught much information in a while.
In fact... the town doesn't blast information on their PA systems every 5 minutes or so like they used to. I never really paid much attention to them... I mean... they were in Japanese first of all... and even if I did know the Japanese needed to understand the message... it wouldn't do me any good since they speakers aren't synched well... so, all I hear is this echo mess. I was told even the Japanese people can barely understand them.
I'm obviously haven't forgotten it all though... and who knows when I'll be at a point where it won't have an effect on me... but, I'm just glad that things for me have seemed to return to normal.
Japan, however... well, that's going to take a while. There are still a bunch of things that need to be done within my own town... before things can function as they did before. And, keep in mind that this is only within my own town... which was far away from the epicenter of the earthquake... and that didn't really get hit by the tsunami. I can't even imagine how it is for those still up north.
But, all I can do now is just continue to live my life. What has happened, it's all in the past. And, life is hard enough as it is... I can't live in the past.
I came up with this great quote that hopefully I can live by it whenever I face troubling times:
"Life keeps on going... so, we have to try our best to keep up with it."
I hope people don't get the wrong impression... I still hope and wish and pray for the best for those up north... my heart goes out to them... but, I need to get back on track with my life. I need to get out of my apartment... I need to soak up the sun's rays... I need to breathe in the air around me... I need to do so much more than what I've done the past weeks locked up in my apartment worrying and stressing about everything that had happened... cause, yeah... life hasn't stopped throughout all of this... and I'm just missing and wasting my life... a prisoner in my own apartment.
I don't know... this entry didn't exactly come out like I wanted it to come out. It seems so disorganized and I don't feel like I've been able to convey what I've wanted to say... but, at the same time I'm not sure what it is that I want to say.
Well... my life seems normal... or as normal as can be for 2 weeks after the earthquake. I don't even think I remember what "normal" is anymore... and I know I'm not the only one... but, for the time being... this new "normal" is what I strive for... and I'm lucky to believe that I have attained it.
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