Back from the Bubble

Highflyer and I are back from an eventful, action-packed, inspiring and intense week in Japan. Apart from the fact that my hopes regarding my dad's health that I expressed in my previous post unfortunately did not come true and his physical and mental condition deteriorated, rather than improved in hospital, horrible national and international events happened last week. Thanks to news available literally at our fingertips 24/7 we learnt about all these event pretty much in real-time, but things like Austria being in national mourning after the school shooting that caused 11 deaths seemed far away when you're not "actively" part of it. As tragic as it was it felt more "abstract" than both the Air India plane crash and the fact that Israel is in war with Iran due to the fact that we knew we were flying back on a Boeing plane and didn't know if our already very long route would be affected because of a detour for safety reasons. Being on another continent in a different timezone feels like a parallel universe and you feel equally helpless and detached.