addendum

Addendum to mob. I was thinking about this later.

I remember when I was a little kid, my dad was watching the news and I saw people walking. The reporter said they were forced to stay on the path because of land mines, and I saw them huddled cold and with their children, walking, pressed forward. Kosovo. How old was I? I must have been very young.

I cried.

My mom took me up to her room and hugged me and talked to me and I don't remember what she said, all I remember is crying.

I didn't cry for the mob I saw today. Things are different now. I've grown older--wiser? more foolish? Have I grown out of being childish or childlike?