Under the Clouds of Terror

I woke up yesterday to the news about the chain explosions in London's transit system. New York, now, London... These happen to be a few cities that I visited. I cannot say that I have not been affected by it.

I was comforted a bit by the idea that I was on my summer routine this month. That means instead of going under-ground in the subway, Sienna and I are on a green commuter GoTrain that passes our midtown station coming down from the suburban north. I know. A red double-decker bus was on the ground and also got blown up in London. Still I feel safer that we are on a above-ground train.

Looks like terrorist attacks would become another fact of life that I will have to teach Sienna to face. What about the cause of the danger? We don't think and talk about these things until something like this happened right next to you. When it did happen though, it would become highly inappropriate to bring up the root cause of these incidents, objectively. I am fortunate to have friends of different backgrounds to explore any subjects. One of my Jewish friends, M, said it has something to do with the religion beliefs in extremes. Note. By that, she doesn't just mean Islam. It has something to do with "your god" as well as "my god". Simple for a Chinese mind like me to understand. But it's very intelligent and humane of her to point it out.

God is what someone in trouble and despair tends to hold on to more. How could you ever think having God around at least contributes to the trouble? Is it so hard to understand that someone can hold on to his dear God as much as you, if not more? The thing is his God is not your God. Oh, my god! For someone like me who have no God to tend to, I will just have to take life one day at a time. Am I worried a terrorist bomb would explode right in front of me? Sure, as much as I fear constantly for a mindless car to run up the curb and knock me down the pavement that I walk on.

Where you don't see your enemy, and your enemy probably don't see you...