[grazhero99]

I find it interesting how this situation is beginning to feel normal to me. I'm only 20, so I've never really consciously lived through a world event of anything even approaching this magnitude before. I'm finding that my whole outlook on life is being majorly altered by all this. As utterly horrible and tragic as everything is right now, I'm hopeful this will ultimately turn out to result in some positive lifestyle changes for me at a personal level, as long as I don't die.

[mikestew]

I'm only 20, so I've never really consciously lived through a world event of anything even approaching this magnitude before.

Those of us approaching 60 haven't, either. Arguably the Cold War, but unless I happened to watch The Day After recently, I never gave that much thought.