This morning I woke up a little earlier than normal to run some errands, but in general thought it was just another hot and humid day in DC. I figured I would just ride the metro to work and then walk the 2 extra blocks to work, maybe even stopping to get a smoothie if I got to work early enough. Boy was I wrong!

This morning there was a bomb threat in the park across from my office building. Normally it is just filled with homeless people, but in the last two weeks there have been 2 bomb threats. Today’s threat blocked off the whole entire park and multiple blocks surrounding it. No matter what way I tried to get to work I failed.

You would think I would be worried about the bomb threat and my safety, but if you thought this you would be wrong. My thoughts were more concerned with how hot is was outside, about how my food was going bad, and whether or not I should study econ or read my kindle (my kindle won that contest). The fact that the bomb threat barely caused a stir to my mental happiness is quite interesting. Two years ago I would have been freaked, but today I just thought “Ohh D.C., yet another bomb threat. When can I go inside?” What’s even more interesting, is that everyone else’s thoughts were about the same as mine. Countless people asked the police if they could just go into their buildings and that everyone already knew that the “suspicious” package was nothing.


I find myself wondering if it’s sad or not that people have become immune to life threatening events. I wonder if we have developed this mentality because we live in the nation’s capital and if by default we already know we put ourselves at risk everyday by just going about our normal business. Or I wonder if everyone around the world thinks like me and everyone else whose day got put on hold by the threat. Is the world becoming more dangerous because of the increased amounts of threats and violence or because people are more concerned about where they’re going and what they want to do instead of their safety?






And lastly, while I waited outside the same quote from JAWS kept popping into my head: “We’re going to need a bigger boat.”