life: on being in denial.

Life is usually interesting. However, we go through life never thinking that anything will ever happen to us. It will always happen to 'those people'. That nothing bad would ever come of my family, because we're good people. That nothing will ever come of us, that somehow we live in this impenetrable bubble of protection. 

That bubble seemed to burst today for my family, yet, we are still, I believe in denial. I'm listening to a live TV and radio station that is talking about the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti that occurred at about 4:53 p.m today, and speaking to the fact that things "always seem to happen to Haiti-- never anywhere else." That Cuba is so close to Haiti, but they weren't hit. I'm sitting here stunned that something could have happened to "our Haiti."  

That is blatant denial. People seem to be looking for an explanation for these events, something other than the fact that this is LIFE. 

There will always be trials. Sometimes they happen on larger scales, and sometimes on a smaller scale, but they are always there. 

We are so quick to say, when something happens to us: "Why didn't it happen to them?" But perhaps it has-- on a different scale and you're (we're) too shallow-minded to see it.