why don't you just stay

the devestation of the tornado that blew through my town on monday was severely eye-opening. to see the wreckage in person, not in photographs, was simply heartbreaking. entire homes were demolished and a business i know and love (and worked for briefly) was ravaged. the reality of the situation finally sunk in--i am a powerless creature over mother nature and it scares the shit out of me. it forces me to consider the artifacts of my life--ones that i could lose. and it makes me take a look at all of the materialistic items i place value on and how frivilous and fleeting those DVDs, clothes, and pieces of meaningless plastic really are. they should never be the items that i choose to define my life and my self with.