Thursday, July 14, 2005

Did you keep silent today?

Today, there was a two minute period of silence for the victims of the last week's bombings in London.

Sometimes, I do wonder - what are we meant to be thinking off, during those silent moments?

  • Are we suppose to think about the people who we've never met before, and the life they lived?
  • Are we suppose to think about the horrific way some of these people died?
  • Should I feel guilty that I was thinking about the stereo I was going to buy for my car
Don't get me wrong - I think about what happened on Thursday 7th July 2005 a lot. I think about it when I hear a strange sound on the underground. I think about it everytime I open the newspaper in the morning. I think about it everytime I watch the news.

And I grief for the people, who were simply on their way to work. And in one split second flash, nothing in their lives, would ever be the same again.

Thats probably why I didn't spend those two minutes thinking about whats happened - because i've spent the last week thinking, about that one hour of hell.

p.s I've decided to get the Alpine CDE 9845RB. Pretty soon, I shall relieve my chav days of past - blasting the stereo up, and pretending to look cool!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Will the KCA-420i work with that?

Biff said...

No - you have to buy the model above it (Alpine CDA 9847R). I was debating whether I was going to use my ipod in my car, and decided that i wasn't. Also, I hate having a cluttered car!

Josephine Chow said...

during those two minutes I was thinking we would be forever silent if we were to do this for every tragic events happened all over the world. How about all those kids who were killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq yesterday?

Biff said...

I guess that the events in Iraq are deemed not worthy of the news - a case of being de-sensitive now to these events as they occur more often than not?

Anonymous said...

We shouldn't be de-sensitised over events I Iraq.. I remember thinking about that.. it's sick.

Biff said...

Unfortunately, the media dedicated very little time yesterday in regards to the Baghdad bombings.