One Location, Two Different Views

Thanks to everyone who commented on last week’s post! I always enjoy hearing from you.

As for this week’s post, it’s entirely based on two photos.

The first is the Lions Gate Bridge, viewed from a pier in West Vancouver in the early evening. We were at a local art and music festival and I thought the bridge looked quite nice.

But just thirty minutes later, still standing in the same place but looking south instead of east, this appeared:

We learned later that a residential building that was under construction caught fire and became fully involved. The flames spread to a couple of neighbouring buildings and a tower crane on the site collapsed across a street and hit at least one other building in the process. I don’t think anyone was injured as of the last news story I read, but people are displaced, and the damage is going to take quite a while to resolve

I don’t have any profound thoughts to share. It was the striking juxtaposition of the photos that caught my attention.

That said, life seems full of whiplash events like this lately. Most are not mine to discuss, but I see them happening around me far too often.

If you’re in experiencing crazy things, I understand. Feel free to vent in my direction if you like. I can’t promise to help, but I will listen. And if you know someone who is going through crazy times, perhaps you could offer to listen to them. At least for me, the chance to talk things through helps a lot.

My take on things is that we have to be what we want to see in the world. If we want to see helpful and nice people out there, we need to show those qualities ourselves. I know it’s trite and cliché, but it really seems to work that way. Think about it.

Cheers!