Comments on: When shock waves flood the media - and the world http://www.shareabrainwave.net/2007/02/03/when-shock-waves-flood-the-media-and-the-world/ What associations do you have with waves? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:12:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: levende http://www.shareabrainwave.net/2007/02/03/when-shock-waves-flood-the-media-and-the-world/#comment-109 levende Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:50:08 +0000 http://www.shareabrainwave.net/2007/02/03/when-shock-waves-flood-the-media-and-the-world/#comment-109 When Princess Diana's accident occured, I was in New York, and three years later, on September 11th, I was in New York too, though fortunately upstate NY - we were supposed to fly back from JFK on the 12th but had to rent a car and drive into Canada instead. Strangely, we entered Canada at Niagara Falls, and watching the swirling waters there, on that day and place in history, it felt like the whole world was being sucked into a hole in time. As if the ocean of time was overflowing us. And so it did, two years ago, when the tsunami hit two continents and one sub-continent. As the wave rolled over the Indian Ocean, my plane took off from the south Indian Ocean island Mauritius, which (lucky for my friends there!) was too far south to feel the wave more than just - a wave. It reached Mauritian ground an hour after our plane took off. So thinking of where I was on those days, it somehow seems to me that I have been traveling one step ahead of waves, and it leaves me humbled and grateful to be alive. Waves are not to be messed with. When Princess Diana’s accident occured, I was in New York, and three years later, on September 11th, I was in New York too, though fortunately upstate NY - we were supposed to fly back from JFK on the 12th but had to rent a car and drive into Canada instead. Strangely, we entered Canada at Niagara Falls, and watching the swirling waters there, on that day and place in history, it felt like the whole world was being sucked into a hole in time. As if the ocean of time was overflowing us.

And so it did, two years ago, when the tsunami hit two continents and one sub-continent. As the wave rolled over the Indian Ocean, my plane took off from the south Indian Ocean island Mauritius, which (lucky for my friends there!) was too far south to feel the wave more than just - a wave. It reached Mauritian ground an hour after our plane took off.

So thinking of where I was on those days, it somehow seems to me that I have been traveling one step ahead of waves, and it leaves me humbled and grateful to be alive. Waves are not to be messed with.

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