how dare i?

It's crazy. I have been so cut off from the world recently. It reminds me of when I was at Calvin and all my friends became part of what we called the "Calvin Bubble." Really, this is what college does to you. You get so wrapped up in your own life, caught up in your own busyness that you forget to check out what is going on around you. Since I don't watch tv, I have to go out of my way to check out cnn.com once a week. Anyway, this week I had kind of heard a bit about what was happening in the south, but I never realized how huge of a deal it was until I got online last night to check out cnn.com. I sat at my computer and cried as I was reading news stories and looking a pictures. While my roommates turned up their dance music and had fun dancing and running around the house, people's lives where drastically changing. While I was sitting comfortably on bed eating my dinner with my laptop on my lap, people are dying because they are still stuck in the floods. Fires are breaking out, ruining any remains there might have been. A whole city is starving and homeless. It's ridiculous. And then I complain about the gas prices being over $3, worried it will go up to $4. How can I be so self-absorbed? How can I complain about anything when there are babies sleeping on cardboard boxes? The hospitals in New Orleans have no power, no water and no food. People are dying while waiting to be evacuated. Dead bodies have been seen throughout the city, floating throughout the water. And I lay comfortably in my bed complaining about how my back hurts... how dare I?