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Fireworks always make me feel oddly melancholy and nervous but I don't understand why. On one level I know it's because the sounds remind me or make me think of the sounds of a city of war. Sitting at home on November the 5th I think of Sarajevo, of the destruction of streets, of the TV footage of war reporters in the hills watching the city being destroyed. This is what war would sound like, I think.
What I don't understand is *why* it has such a strong effect on me. I wasn't young enough to be hugely impressionable at the time of Bosnia, 10 or so by then if I remember correctly. Or is that still an age at which fears are formed? Or was there another conflict in my earlier childhood? One that I was too young to remember the name of, but remember the sound of perfectly? Help me out, you older people.
What I don't understand is *why* it has such a strong effect on me. I wasn't young enough to be hugely impressionable at the time of Bosnia, 10 or so by then if I remember correctly. Or is that still an age at which fears are formed? Or was there another conflict in my earlier childhood? One that I was too young to remember the name of, but remember the sound of perfectly? Help me out, you older people.
sounds like people and animals dying
Date: November 5th, 2003 01:38 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)i've never been in a war zone! it seems to me that so many people in the world are suffering the effects of war at the moment i should almost feel guilty about never knowing what war was like.
i hear people daily complaining about the influx of refugees into this country. i've lived here all my life and with or without fireworks i'd rather live elswere. let the people that hate put themselves in the position of the people they hate. would they like to listen to the sound of useless fireworks remind them of why they came to this shithole in the first place?