I felt the Earth move beneath the soles of my feet, a tremor deep from the bowels of the planet’s core.
I was sitting on the sofa watching TV and tweeting about it…. and then I noticed that it was just that I could feel The Earth beneath my feet but the sofa was vibrating ever so slightly like it was a massage chair and the windows were rattling like a freight train was passing through my backyard…. There is no railway line in our backyard, so it could only mean one thing…. a derailed freight train was being all unstoppable outside the house…. I got up and peered casually outside the window half expecting to hear the shrill blast of a train’s horn or see the headlights coming straight at me and I could look like a startled deer watching a flame come to burn it, wait that’s a moth, but see a moth would have flown to the flame, the flame would have come for me…..I guess my imagination is just like runaway train of thought….
The internet is such a handy tool, instead going crazy trying to figure out if I had gone crazy a few clicks later I knew what happened…..
Turns out it was an earthquake:
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake with an epicentre in central Botswana occurred at 1940hrs CAT, and the tremors were felt in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
I haven’t heard of any causalities so I presume people only got a little shaken up nothing serious…
Its amazing isn’t our ability to laugh at the things that frighten, our on way of assuring ourselves that, that wasn’t so bad give me another challenge… see fear cant abide humour, were it not for laughter sometimes fear would never leave, that’s because fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out at all.
So when you wake up in the morning and find people joking about earthquakes all over social media maybe they are not just being funny, they are saying hey lets laugh because we are not afraid… at least lets pretend we didn’t for a second think the world was going to end, aint no body got time to live their lives like that….
I felt the Earth move beneath my feet and I laughed, did you feel it too…..?
~B
PS If you didn’t feel anything and you are wondering if it was real, the internet says it was real so it was real
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