It will be very strange to be in Europe in 10 days. The knowledge that there’s a war going on in the continent is going to make it a weird visit. It always feels disorienting to be back on the home continent but this time it will be stranger than ever.
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“a war going on”
the most horrible thing is that you get used to it…
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I haven’t gotten used to it. Every day I wake up and the realization crushes me anew. Kharkiv was bombed again yesterday. These absolute bloody bastards.
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” haven’t gotten used to it”
You have a (much bigger) personal stake* in it.
I remember the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, it’s about the same distance from where I live to Sarajevo and to Kyiv…. so a terrible war going on not that far away is one I’ve gotten a bit used to (as awful as that sounds).
*everybody has a big personal stake in it, but yours is… bigger than most people’s
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I didn’t mean it as in blaming people for getting used to it. It’s completely normal. I’m horrified by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria but I don’t think about them all the time or search for news updates all day.
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