In amongst all these celebrity sightings and expo booths and rock star interviews, I was reminded of reality by news of a particular apartment building in my hometown. It’s a building that my grandmother lived in at one point, that a friend of mine lived in at another point. It’s a building I’ve spent the night in, and thank goodness it wasn’t last night. Buildings catch on fire, but how often to buildings explode? I used to shop at the Target whose parking garage ended up being used a shelter for those displaced. Seeing that footage, as surreal as it was, made me aware of a few different things. Life goes on, even in the places you’re no longer living in. Things change, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it from happening. And at any given time, the building you’re in can just randomly blow up without warning, and that randomness won’t care a lick about who you met last night or what your plans are for last week.
Amazingly, and gratefully, no one was killed in the explosion.
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