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 the journey home
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Jul. 14th, 2005 @ 06:49 pm 
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So apparently there was another jumper at Sheppard Station this afternoon. The train I was on skidded to a stop in the tunnel between York Mills and Sheppard, sat there for a while, then started to head back south as an announcer told us that there would be no northbound service between York Mills and Finch.
Thanks a lot, asshole. Now the beautiful free afternoon that had stretched out before me after being dismissed from work 1.5 hours early has evaporated due to the fact that I had to walk home. It was a good walk actually (after I got used to the rain) but it's time that could and should have been spent doing other things.
The worst part, though, was the little twinge of fear that gripped my stomach as the train stopped and the announcer came on over the speaker saying that he'd been ordered to stop the train but not given any further details as to why.
I couldn't help but think of London at that point.
Something about the London bombings has struck a deeper nerve within me than New York or Madrid. Perhaps it's because this was an attack on Canada's mother country, as it were. Maybe it's because of the three, London is the city whose streets I've actually physically walked. Maybe it's because the attacks took place as world leaders met to discuss ways to bring aid to the world's poor.
Yes, I've been thinking about this rather a lot lately, and it seems that not since World War II has a conflict so clearly crystalized into a battle of Good vs. Evil. Civilization vs. barbarism. These bombings are not about religious, ethnic, national or individual determinism. It's about old men brainwashing young men into committing mass murder.Current Mood:  thoughtful |
I remember feeling a bit of fear when my train stopped in the tunnel 2 miles from downtown on 7/8. I knew for sure it couldn't be, and it was just a normal stop, yet the fear was there. I guess that's what the bombers and the people who ordered them to bomb want us to do, and there'll be that immediate effect.
London resonated for me because I'd been there, but you have that additional factor of Canada being linked to Great Britain. New York was surreal, although I did have fear they'd try to hit another big building(Sears Tower.) I've never been to New York. But I could picture London, where I've taken the Underground.
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