Dear Nirvair:

You wrote: “I won’t give up (hope). It keeps me alive”- what particular hope are you referring to; is it hope for your relationship becoming unbroken?

Regarding technology, yes, I agree, of course, the ability of an individual or group of individual to practically destroy the world. Yes, that didn’t exist before nuclear capability. Technology makes it possible to cause many millions of people to die in a very short time. Without technology and with technology, each one of us will die, that doesn’t change.

Interesting, for me, my situation this very morning: the air outside (and inside to a lesser extent) is thick with smoke, alarmingly so, I feel fear from time to time, a feeling of being trapped in smoke. It is not because of technology but because of fires north of me, the heat and lack of rain. Yes, destruction is always a possibility, the destruction of one’s life, whether it is a whole lot of people destroyed at once, or not.

anita