Without We heard the same stories in Madrid not quite 16 months ago. But the Spanish girl in London concluded her tale by saying: “I see all those images when I close my eyes. I doubt I’ll sleep very much tonight.”
Very much, she said. That very much was the safe haven of her very understandable feeling of relief of which I speak.
At least it wasn’t me
It is understandable because that rationalization is fast becoming the last resort, the final place where we can
live without feeling paralyzed by fear, that list to data chip away at our freedoms – freedoms we
have all achieved thanks to the many sacrifices of those who came before us. But unfortunately, the trend among
most of our politicians today is to rescind these hard-won freedoms – to make sure that nobody moves freely. In the middle of all these terrible events and their consequences, politicians seem to have caught on to something: they have realized that a national mood of paralyzing fear has its advantages.
These London tube stops
Where the bombs struck are very familiar for me: I have waited cher or replacing sutton foster on their platforms en
route to the British Museum, Madame Tussaud’s, or the antiquarian bookstores on Museum Street, or whenever
I would head north by train to Edinburgh or York. Yet, I believe that in this day and age, the Western world has to shake off its fear, escape it, run away from it. Those who intend to kill will do what they want; it is practically impossible for us to stop them – as impossible as it would be to stop a hurricane from crashing against a beach.
Measures may be taken
Precautions invoked, but you can’t stop a hurricane. And if the hurricane catches you, then it was a stroke of bad luck, which happens to the sale leads best of us. What we cannot do, under any circumstances, is spend day and night locked up in the basement, waiting for the hurricane to hit.