I sense a disturbance in the force…

Taken from my husband’s facebook notes:

This past week has been a very strange week indeed

I don’t know. Maybe it is just me, but many (dark) things happen this past week, too many for them to be just a simple coincidences.

For starter, there have been too many deaths.

Reza’s mother, bi icah’s nephew, Aas’s mother, riza’s daughter, Dejan, Tante Heni’s husband, a friend’s aunt.
And then there’s that Jackson guy and someone called Farrah F.

Hey, people died all the time, you might say. Otherwise this whole planet would be inhabited by trillions in just a few short centuries. BUT, this feels different. Too many natural deaths in just a short time.
Some of them were old, some were sick. But why now?

And then there’s the fact that almost everybody I know were sick.
I only need to open facebook to see pages after pages of people with status like ‘not feeling well’, ‘damn cold!’, ‘I need to see a doctor’
Not to mentioned the fact that I also spend three days in bed last week with a violent (and out of nowhere-y) kind of cold.

There’s no big catastrophe going on in the world right now. No tsunami like Aceh, nor earthquake like last year’s.
But everything still feels wrong.

When Darth Vader destroyed the planet Alderaan, Obi wan, flying in the millennium falcon light years away feels it as a physical pain, the moment when millions of life were suddenly silenced.

That’s how I feel right now.