First, I know ‘tragedical’ is not a word…but it should be.

Now, on with the story.   I was sitting in my Human Growth and Development class today, which is definitely in the top 5 most boring classes of my lifetime, and I (shock) was bored.  In our book, we have little pictures on the sides of the pages that I take upon myself to color in with my highlighters, no matter what the picture is.  I just find the light colors of the picture and go over them.  Well, I had my highlighter out today to continue my routine, but as I looked down to the picture I was about to color, I stopped and put the highlighter down–I couldn’t color it.  It was one picture atop another, one of 9/11 and one of a family of Katrina victims.  It got me to thinking about how much the things that happen in our lifetime affect us rather than those that happened in our parents or grandparents (etc.) lifetimes. 

I was not directly affected by either 9/11 or Katrina, but they were huge tragedies that affected the entire country.  I can still remember where I was when we were given the first hint that ‘a plane accidently crashed into a building in new york’ (the argument over how poorly my school handled it I’ll save for another day) …sitting in my 8th grade math class.  And even though it was six years ago now, I still feel like it happened last year.  Pearl Harbor, the Civil War, Vietnam (etc.) are all events I know were horrible, but other than that they are just a significant date in history to me.  None of them have the same affect on me when I see a picture of it as 9/11, Katrina, or even the Virginia Tech tragedy. 

Anyway, this was really a pointless post……just telling you what I was thinking about while wasting my time in Human Growth and Development.