Mental Health Moment #1
February 9, 2009 at 10:50 pm Leave a comment
It’s been a long weekend and a long day and my eyes are sore and it’s hot and my head is stuffy and I’m sick of dealing with teenage angst and playing politics at work sucks.
My own issues seem petty when you consider that the death toll from the Victorian bushfires is at 130. It’s likely to rise. One of my Melbourne colleagues lives in Marysville – her house was only 8km from the fires. The fires in New South Wales (some only 70km from my friend’s place – fortunately southerly winds seem to have turned the fires back from her property) would normally be national news, but they’re lost amidst the devastation of Victoria. Ditto the massive floods in Far North Queensland.
I had lunch with a friend today who told me she was crying all weekend, the sight of the burnt out cars was too much for her. 12 people have died in the town she lived in as a little girl.
On Friday, I was in a phone conference with a guy in Melbourne who was casually mentioning he could see bushfires coming up alongside his building. We were asking if he needed to evacuate. ‘She’ll be right,’ he said. ‘We’re not in danger here.’ I bet he wouldn’t be so complacent today.
Super shit long weekend.
I’m going to get to a post – my Spotlight was meant to be on bottled water today, and I’ll get to it, but it might be later in the week. I’ll have to backdate it. I’m too mentally tired tonight to worry about it. Sorry guys.
I saw this today and it made me laugh. I think the fact that people from western countries tend to look at things top to bottom, left to right makes this even funnier. Funny is important when you need a mental health moment.
Mental Health Monday - LOLCats FTW
Tonight I feel lucky to be a Brisbanite, no matter how tired I am. Stay safe everyone.
Entry filed under: Meanwhile.... Tags: death, fire, mental health.
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