Ok, I'm really depressed right now. It;s almost newyear and I'm all alone and I just watched the news. Only then I realized how bad things were in southeast Asia. The first flight of Dutch wounded returns with a sman who lost is 8 month old baby daughter, another man and his friend whose wife's are missing, people who have lost their brothers and sisters...
I suppose it must be really bad for the Swedes too. Apparantly their governement has no information whatsoever on the amount of people missing. Some say 1500, other say 5000, but no-one knows for sure. At least in Holland we know how many people are missing.
And just when I was totally through with the disaster, they showed footage from the occupied part of Sri Lanka. A fathers burying his 5 year old son, a man from a family of 43 and he was the only survivor, heaps and heaps of dead bodies childrens who lost their parents. It just came as a complete shock to me when I realized this was reality, and not some far away story you see on TV everyday....
But one thing made me feel very warm inside: I felt deeply touched when I saw that two little children from Oslo, not older than 10, sold their toys on the street to raise money for the victims of the earthquake. They raised 350 euros.
I wish everybody affected by the disaster a lot of strength and peace in 2005, and I hope that next year helps them to overcome the sufferring of this year.
Happy New Year,
-- Lukas