tsunami

I made the mistake of watching this four days ago
and I've had dreams of swirling vortexes every night since. They're not exactly malicious. One night, from a safe and high vantage point I watched as an ice and snow vortex gently carried away a ship. Last night it was a pretty vortex in a pond at night filled with flowers and magical colored lights. I'm sure this is just my unconscious mind trying to cope with and soften terrifying images that I should have never willingly exposed myself to.

But this is real life stuff. This was something a lot of people had to live through and will deal with for the rest of their lives. As an atheist, when bad things happen to me or ones I love, I see it as random bad luck or one of those things that just happens from time to time in everyone's life since no one can completely be free from sadness or loss. I think it takes much more determination to be a theist and experience something like the 2004 tsunami. Most theists try to take into account a loving God when something bad or even terrible happens to them and they end up viewing it as a trial of sorts. But to lose everything you own and everyone you love in a matter of hours seems like too much to bear.