As much as we try to predict nature, it's still a thing we can't really do. I also think it's natural to be happy and even euphoric that you are safe. That the worst didn't happen. You need that moment to lose the tension and only then can you worry about other people.
I'm sure that most people in Miami felt that way when instead of the predicted direct hit and Irma travelling up the east cost turned to it turning further and further westward until it reached the west coast. It's the survival instinct and once that's satisfied, we can turn to looking at others and sympathising with them.
It's a choice of us or them when you really want to choose neither. Self preservation will always make you pick the others even if you don't really want to. It's not as if you can argue or reason with a natural phenomenon (well, Thor might be able to)
(And this makes me think I should have studied psychology - or it's that Darwin documentary I watched on Youtube)
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Date: 2017-09-12 04:27 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're all safe.
As much as we try to predict nature, it's still a thing we can't really do. I also think it's natural to be happy and even euphoric that you are safe. That the worst didn't happen. You need that moment to lose the tension and only then can you worry about other people.
I'm sure that most people in Miami felt that way when instead of the predicted direct hit and Irma travelling up the east cost turned to it turning further and further westward until it reached the west coast. It's the survival instinct and once that's satisfied, we can turn to looking at others and sympathising with them.
It's a choice of us or them when you really want to choose neither. Self preservation will always make you pick the others even if you don't really want to. It's not as if you can argue or reason with a natural phenomenon (well, Thor might be able to)
(And this makes me think I should have studied psychology - or it's that Darwin documentary I watched on Youtube)
Either way, I'm glad you're all fine.