Tsunami Jokes

In the main, I am not a crusader.  I am not a prude.  I have my guilty pleasures and ‘guilty laughs’ with the best of them.  Albeit ‘opinionating’ (and sometimes forcibly) via my alter ego, HerMelness Speaks, I also try to understand rather than judge my fellow human beings. Put myself behind their eyes to try and glimpse the world as perhaps they see it.  To do this even when heinous opinions and beliefs butt against my own.

Hours after hearing the news of the current Tsunami disaster, I admit though to being at an absolute loss as to how ‘jokes’ could have already been circulating around this tragic situation.  If not to judge, I suppose the next best I can say is … I don’t get it.

Thousands, hundreds of thousands maybe, are in effect waiting to have their lives ended via this freak of nature.  Spouses, siblings, lovers, babies, parents, the whole gamut of relationships will be torn apart and irreparably changed forever. Human life will be sapped and then lost.  How is that funny?

 I do not own real estate on the moral high ground, but sometimes, just sometimes, maybe we should be unashamed to find a bench and sit there awhile.  Sit and acknowledge that jokes in this situation, on this day, right now, is simply not right.

Melinda