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A Good Decision ...
It could have been so very different that day.
Boxing day 2004. Waking to the steady hiss of the heating, the warmth of the apartment and the darkness of a Stockholm winter morning. Outside the crunch of boots in snow.
We’d decided not to travel that year. To have a lazy, relaxed Christmas. The TV was off and the only thing planned was to walk down to the corner video shop and hire a few films. Then the calls started to come in.
At Christmas Swedes escape their winter blues and head to the sun. To Thailand.
Like the Estonia disaster before the Tsunami seemed to effect everyone we knew. The people who rented the summer house that year. People at work. Call after call.
I sat and watched the TV reports. The beaches I’d walked on, the places where I’d swam, where we might have been.
Two years on, watching Tsunami tonight the scale of this is still unimaginable.
It could have been so very different that day.
