DailyJim: Dangers in a new land

Hello everyone, welcome to another Daily Gym. This is the episode for Monday, May 6, 2024. Today I want to talk about dangers in a new land. So I'll talk about myself first.

There's something in Kenya called Nairobi fly. It is a beetle, which apparently when you squish it and the juices leak out. The juices are quite acidic or something and can cause boils on the skin. And so often sometimes people will be sleeping and the bug will crawl across the face and people swipe the bug away and then get the boils on the face.

And the other day I saw, oh, this is a cute little bug. It's kind of orangish greenish. It's really cute. cute i guess it's not so cute i had a friend who woke up with kind of a black eye and i think some other like a bite on her face we're not sure if it was nairobi fly it could have been something else some other insect of some sort um and then i was working on the computer late at night and all of a sudden it was almost like there was a bat in the house flying around oh no it's just a grasshopper how did a three inch grasshopper get into the house what is going on oh yeah yeah and so it's somewhat i mean these are not serious harms or serious dangers for me but there you know another thing is i was working on the computer and I did some programming and it started eating up a lot of data. It was 20, 40 gigabytes or something crazy. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a second. And then the thoughts of, well, how much is that going to cost me? But even then, these are tiny dangers compared to some of the dangers that people are facing in different parts of the world, especially as refugees. People are fleeing one country of danger, one area of danger, to go to another one that might have danger.

Just reading a little bit about, not going too deep into it today because it was programming, but is Israel invading Rafah now? I think they told 400,000 people to evacuate the area. 400,000 people to evacuate the refugee camps, basically, to go to other refugee camps. Camps, man, just, I can't, I can't even fathom the level of fear that some of these people might have in moving from one refugee camp to another. So many unknowns, unknown people, unknown insects, unknown threats of violence.

I think there's a reason why we try to stay within our comfort zone and our familiarity, because once we get outside of it there can be a lot of danger, there can also be a lot of joy, there's a reason why we do go outside but when we're forced outside of it and it wasn't our decision, again, there can be some joy but in some of these situations, I don't even know. Talking to a friend who talked about, what did he call it? I think he called it the clash in Sudan.

Oh, and how many people have fled Sudan and just been relocated and going to new places and trying to learn how to live a different life if they're living at all.

I just, yeah, I just, I don't know, I'm running low on energy tonight, but just thinking about how, despite these little fears of this bug and that bug, people have much heavier things on their hearts these days, or at least a lot of people do. And yeah trying to balance respecting or paying attention to the fear that i have but also respecting the fear that's out there in other people and, ah is life what life is resilient but also fragile at the same time so man i sound exhausted but again it's all relative right how exhausted are some other people that are going through much heavier stuff. So I'm going to end for tonight, try to get some sleep, and talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.