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Everything is so relative. Missiles from Yemen are already less scary, after the missiles from Iran that killed and destroyed thousands of homes just by bouncing off hundreds of meters.
On Friday evening I returned from a family dinner about an hour's drive from here, I'm always happy when there are no alarms on the way. I got home and sat down on the couch, it was ten thirty at night and then that scary sound that announces an alarm in a few minutes. Of course I ran to the shelter and there I met everyone else again, including the little children who woke up from their sleep scared and the dog Bella who is still very scared by every alarm. This morning at 6 a.m., the same sound announcing an upcoming alarm, and the neighborhood meeting at the shelter. Fewer people are coming, maybe because they've gotten used to it, maybe because these are missiles from Yemen, not missiles from Iran. It's strange to me how adaptable we are. We sit in a shelter for ten minutes, with alarms and explosions above us, and ten minutes later we go out, each to our daily routine, as if this were normal life.
It is strange how life can go on, family dinner, a one hour drive, with so much going on and the possibility of having to take shelter at short notice. Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteI often find myself asking the people around me if they believe this is our life. Sometimes there are moments that remind me of scenes from movies about World War II, but most of the time life here is truly "normal", like anywhere else. Thank you for the comment.
ReplyDeleteThe abnormal becomes normal with time.People are adaptable.
ReplyDeleteI see the late Edmund is wearing the Collar of Shame - how they hate those things.
Jabblog,I just came to the conclusion that everything is only true at the time it was written. Now there was a warning on the phone that another missile from Yemen was on its way here and that alarms would be sounded soon, yes I saw that I was a little anxious waiting for what would come, a few seconds after that they announced that the missile had fallen on its way here and would not arrive... and my mind still needs to calm down from the alertness it entered.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for Edmund the cat, this was taken when I returned with him from the vet and he refused to give up his daily walk on the roof despite that collar.
We evolved as hunter-gatherers on the African savannah and we've adapted to a life of office jobs, the internet, and paying bills, so we can probably adapt to pretty much anything. But constant stress is still very unhealthy for people.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to think there is no concept of "normal" that stays for all times and in all countries. For example if you had told me 10 years ago that we would have guards in front of our Jewish schools and shule since the massacre in Oct 2023 in a teenage music festival, I would have said ARE YOU MAD. I know it is not the equivalent of bombs being dropped on cities, but we moved our magen davids from chains around the neck, removed mezuzahs from the front doors and supervise the school children as soon as they exit the school gates.
ReplyDeleteNormal never stays the same :(
I suppose you have to adapt and try to survive in this abnormal situation. But your nerves must be jumping every time you hear a siren. So Shocking for you.... Literally
ReplyDeleteIt must be hard to believe that such things can become normalised.
ReplyDeleteHumans put up with many horrors in our cruel world.