How Odd

It is odd how easy things pass these days.

 

Two suicide bombers (one on a motorcycle; Now there’s a new twist on ‘how to blow up things’)  attempt to blow up an embassy, some 23 people die, 145 are wounded, extensive damage in the neighborhood and the already frayed nerves of the sunni and shia communities in Lebanon unravel a little further.

 

 

Yet nothing really happens.
 

 Nobody is picking up their kids from school (as is the standard thing to do when you think shit is going to hit the fan), there’s no closure of government offices, no day of mourning, no burning tires, no protests and no strikes.
 

Nothing at all.
 

Maybe traffic was a little lighter yester afternoon.
Otherwise, it was business as usual.  I live a couple of neighborhoods over, so we did not hear the explosion, but a friend of mine did.
“It sounded like an explosion, but also like a door slamming close, so we left it at that,” she said. It is that I saw it on the news, otherwise the whole event would have passed me by. No ambulances, no sirens, nothing at all.
 

An acquaintance of mine, who’s working in Syria right now, asked me if I could verify if his son was okay. And I am thinking, 'if from a Damascus perspective things are looking bad in Beirut, than it must really be bad'.
 

 But we’re one day further. And nothing really happened.
 

Isn’t it odd,  how easy things pass these days?