When I was about 5 or 6, I was sitting on a small boat and fell off. Ever since then, I have had this fascination and fear of the water. It is so beautiful, but in the same sense so restricting. It made Hawaii feel like a prison to me because I couldn't just drive away.


I think about the prison that water is, and it how is necessary for life, but can also end life too.
The great tidal waves in the tsunami of 2004 is still fresh in my memory. I remember how it was only newsticker news at first with sports scores on the actual screen.


I don't think I will ever know the full gravity of this tragic event because it didn't happen in a country that sparks interest to the American Eye. Of course we care, but it wasn't our families who perished and were swallowed into the sea, it was some poor family on the other side of the world. It doesn't effect me as much as it does those there, and "why should it?" seems to be the consensus of how we handle things like that.


How do you rebuild when tragedy is so massive? Geography physically changed from the force of this wave, making one island two islands. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people are missing off the face of the earth, and those who survived are left with rubbish and peril in thier midst.


Never Forget.