Reply #25: It's overload. Too much tragedy, to much hunger, too much everything.

[juajen]

It doesn't surprise me that people all over the world are looking for some happiness in a royal wedding. We have tragedy after tragedy and it just doesn't seem to stop. Katrina, tsunamis, Haiti, The Gulf of Mexico, Japan, Texas storms and wildfires, Alabama, Georgia and more; destruction raining down everywhere. It's just piling on. People are compassionate. Here in LA we had Katrina, and the hurricanes that followed, then the destruction of our beloved Gulf of Mexico, and this doesn't even begin to address the number of the unemployed and suffering families. Everywhere we look is devastation. Sometimes we need to look at something that is just normal to distill the disquiet.

Am I the only one that is feeling helpless because of the magnitude of everything that is happening? As much as I disagree with some of Obama's policies, I feel so sorry for that man right now. It's too damn much.