That was nice of her. 

Uncharacteristically so. Our relationship has been cordial, at best.

That was nice of her.

 

My dad just told me I should stop doing marathons.  My husband was not happy about my two big marathons (Chicago, MCM) coming up but we'll be there if we can.

 

Yup,

My father called to ask if I had heard, then followed up with, "See if you run you will get blown up."

To which my annoyed response was, "Yes, also my toenails will fall off, my knees will break, my heart will burst, I will get run over and a dog will bite my balls off. So, what the fuck dad."

Peter Sagal (from NPR and he also has a column in RW magazine) crossed the line 5 minutes before the explosion.   His last tweet was "Hours after the event, and in another city, I am now, officially, losing my shit."    I think there's going to be a lot of people who haven't fully processed what happened.

That's really nice of her Basya!

This is true.  Unfortunately, a lot of people let themselves be afraid, which is what terrorism wants to achieve.  I am not scared.  Like I told my dad, there is a bigger chance of the federal building I work to have issues, attacks, etc., than while I run a marathon.

No one should not do a marathon now. That should never happen. And this may sound flippant, but i mean this seriously - even in the event of a terrorist attack, your individual chance of being a victim is extremely small. So even the fear of this is not based on appropriate probability.

I fly usually a few times per year. I live in New York City. I studied abroad in London a few months after the London subway bombings and took the subway every day. My boyfriend works in Washington DC in a government building. If I stopped to think for long enough about possible terrorist attacks I would be unable to function and do anything. It is a scary, scary world we live in. But we have to go on with our everyday lives. We can't live in fear. We have to take subways, and planes, and run our races. If we stop doing what we want and need to do to live our lives because we are afraid, then they win. We cannot let them win.

I fly usually a few times per year. I live in New York City. I studied abroad in London a few months after the London subway bombings and took the subway every day. My boyfriend works in Washington DC in a government building. If I stopped to think for long enough about possible terrorist attacks I would be unable to function and do anything. It is a scary, scary world we live in. But we have to go on with our everyday lives. We can't live in fear. We have to take subways, and planes, and run our races. If we stop doing what we want and need to do to live our lives because we are afraid, then they win. We cannot let them win.

Well said.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

~Benjamin Franklin

For sure. All I hear are sirens. I think I will call my therapist this week. Not ashamed at all to talk this out.

 

I didn't get a chance to try and find you at the finish. Thank you for volunteering. Thank you for helping the victims.