Strange Days

Last year I composed [with different artists' materials] this multimedia holiday/Christmas CD to send out to my friends. From the advice from a select few after they previewed it, my original idea was pretty much tossed, the final product being something completely different. I was quite disappointed, not being able to portray what I originally intended, and the final presentation ended up being over-the-top-Christmasy. But all went well because at the very end, I DID manage to include my original idea/presentation on the disc, but the elements were all hidden, Easter Egg'd.

Anyway, the imageries from my original idea consist of various things like war, genocide, world hunger, death & dying, etc., interspersed with pictures of flowers... I don't know exactly why I made it, at the time, I just made it, and at the time, I really wanted to do it and finish it... and I did. I had a need to do it, whether it be for me or for someone else or for whatever reasons... That was three and a half months ago.

A war started today, and it's very close to home... There have been talks about the subject for months and months, and now that it's truly happening, it's still very difficult for me to imagine... yet imagine no more. I am scared, scared for the people who are at war, scared for their families that they may never see their loved ones again, scared for all the fathers and mothers and all the children who are all caught up in this turmoil... and I'm also scared for myself, scared of this feeling knowing that people are actually at war, people fighting, defending, killing, attacking one another, and I hate it... According to some people, maybe certain people do deserve to die, but the feeling is still there. We're all human under the same sun...

Now that it has started, may it be over soon. Please...

Posted by robert at March 19, 2003 09:55 PM