Comments on: The End of My Displacement http://virtuallyshocking.com/2008/05/09/the-end-of-my-displacement/ Not actually all that shocking. Tue, 22 May 2012 11:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Amanda http://virtuallyshocking.com/2008/05/09/the-end-of-my-displacement/comment-page-1/#comment-56665 Amanda Sun, 11 May 2008 06:38:00 +0000 http://virtuallyshocking.com/2008/05/09/the-end-of-my-displacement/#comment-56665 Me too. I'm pretty much feeling like I've healed from Katrina personally at this point, and I just don't feel like talking about it anymore. Whenever I'm on an airplane and the questions of: "where do you live?" come up, I get rolled into the conversation about Katrina. For awhile it was hard because it was a sore spot, and I didn't feel like I could talk about it without feeling worse, or maybe losing my composure. Now, it's not such a sore spot, but there's just not much to be said that hasn't already been said. No, it's not fixed. Yes, it will be awhile. Yes, the city is below sea-level. No, the infrastructure is not back. For once, it will be nice to talk about something else with strangers... like the weather, or other light-hearted unimportant things. Me too. I’m pretty much feeling like I’ve healed from Katrina personally at this point, and I just don’t feel like talking about it anymore. Whenever I’m on an airplane and the questions of: “where do you live?” come up, I get rolled into the conversation about Katrina.

For awhile it was hard because it was a sore spot, and I didn’t feel like I could talk about it without feeling worse, or maybe losing my composure. Now, it’s not such a sore spot, but there’s just not much to be said that hasn’t already been said. No, it’s not fixed. Yes, it will be awhile. Yes, the city is below sea-level. No, the infrastructure is not back.

For once, it will be nice to talk about something else with strangers… like the weather, or other light-hearted unimportant things.

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