It's The End Of The World As We Know It... And I Feel Fine

Inevitably, this song popped into my head the other day. Quite a cliche, isn't it? Well I'm not too sure that it really works right now. Civil War in Libya, an earthquake in Japan (plus the possibility of nuclear disaster), protests in Bahrain, Yemen, and pretty much the whole of the Middle East, the U.N.'s inability to make any decisions about it, etc., etc. These are just a few of the things going on lately. 

I could probably go on and on about the situation in Libya. But I'm not going to bore you with that. All I will say is that I'm so unbelievably frustrated about the whole thing. Every time I watch the news I get a headache. The news reports about Japan are painful to watch as well. Apparently we can't get enough of seeing horrifying videos of people being taken away by the water. Somehow, everything's gone up in smoke at the same time. But if you stop and think about it, this whole year has been marked by shocking events. Remember the Moscow Airport bombings for example. Furthermore, natural disasters such as earthquakes have been on the increase in the past decade. Unrest in the Middle East (and not to mention the war in Afghanistan or Iraq) are also on the news on a monthly basis. So, is it really the end of the world as we know it? Or is this just, life as we know it?

It seems to me that these things have now become the norm. The situation is not getting worse, it's become the normal situation. Either way, I don't particularly like it. But as the song goes, "and I feel fine..."

R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It... And I Feel Fine