I have recently returned to this channel. I stopped watching it when I got ill with my ears and head. Before that I watched it religiously. There is something fascinating about accidents, and the events and reasons for them. Only afterwards can we see and learn what to change in the future to try and help them to never happen again.
This episode I can definitely relate to. Just what awful luck happened here. You couldnt make it up. The catastrophe sometimes seems preordained to happen. I think several years ago it was beginning to dawn on me that all is chaos, and watching these stories unfold on this channel was preparing me for life and its outrageous slings and arrows of fortune, or rather mis-fortune. The narrator has the perfect voice too, so full of edgy caution, yet calm and unflinching.
The closing music amuses me and chills me. I used to hum it to other people when something sketchy was happening. Of course I explained the whys and wherefores. The beat goes on and always has and will. We just hope it never happens to us, but we cannot avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thats what I find so fascinating.
I agree that chaos exists. As an artist, when I get into the "artistic mode," I watch how chaos seems to emerge from the ether and onto a canvas, and I am the one who gives order to the chaos with the finishing touches and details. But it seems to me that chaos does not affect everyone the same in real life--some people are drawn to chaos, while others are careful about it, and know how to keep it at bay. This is usually also affected by cause and effect--how we act or react, and the way we live our lives. I understand the feeling of not wanting to be at the wrong place and wrong time. I just think that when something bad happens, or a person dies, it was probably just their time. In the case of many people who seem affected by chaos, they often have also done something to be at the wrong place and time, like those who take risks. Which is one reason I avoid planes or mountain climbing, speeding, etc.
ReplyDeleteI have an Uncle who will not deviate from the route he has decided to take as that draws a whole new set of events that may happen. Things change though when we see patterns. Then it gets scary.
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