I don’t know why it just hit me, but as I sat in the shelter at 3 in the morning I suddenly realized that the whole story isn’t about me.  I may be in a life and death situation, but the whole story is about China, Russia, amd the U.S. and world domination.  I’m just collateral damage.  So if my house blows up, or I damage my knees for life on the stairs, it doesn’t matter. 

Well, to me it does.