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[sincere]

I've finally deciphered my mood by method of drawing an analogy.

This is how I felt when the World Trade Center was attacked. Not during, which was full of horror and oh my god and tears, but afterwards, in the aftermath, when everyone was still shocked. That was the time when I looked to the future and saw uncertainty; when I looked to the future and felt sure that nothing good could come of this, that we had lost something somehow while we weren't looking.

This is how I felt then: shell-shocked, kind of broken. Something I had cherished was gone: the twin towers, my stepfather's dreams, security. I went through the motions of my life for a few days afterwards without really smiling or feeling anything -- just apathetic, ambivalent. Like I've been all day today. Dissatisfied and kind of afraid.

This is the real "post 9/11 mindset" that Bush keeps talking about. I wonder if this makes Bush's election the equivalent of the WTC attack? Is Bush a national terrorist? Discuss!

In light of the future of politics, I unveil my new icon.

Comments

[nightflight.livejournal.com]

Oh, Kay.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

This is exactly how I felt after 9/11. This shocked, scared, hollow sort of feeling. I feel like our country was just attacked again, but this time, by itself.

I made a phone post earlier today that I deleted before posting asking America while sobbing through my Japanese sonna ni jibun no koto ga kirai no? Do we really hate ourselves that much?

Flags ought to be at half-mast, I think.

I still can't really eat.

[yami-chan.livejournal.com]

Not getting a post 9/11 feel but I'm still shocked and at a loss as to how to feel. I don't feel it to the point I felt in for 9/11. That was just pure nothing... nothing and hysterical amusement. I am not amused now though. Not at all. I dread the next four years.