Sean said not too long ago that we were lucky that we weren't living in Japan when the fire happened, because we wouldn't have had a support structure to help us get back on our feet. I thought that was a ridiculous statement. If we'd been in Japan, the fire wouldn't have happened to us at all--we didn't cause it.
It occurred to me today that if we had been in Japan, the fire probably would have still happened, but to someone else. Would the people living in 09I have been home? Would they have awakened? Would one of them have thought to pull the fire alarm?
When we ran out front, there was a guy standing in the yard just staring at the building. I have no idea who he was or what he was doing there, but he hadn't pulled the fire alarm. And no one else woke up until the alarm went off and the firemen started beating on doors.
The only casualty in the fire was a gerbil. If we'd been in Japan, would people have died?
This is about the only reason I can think of to be glad that we were there.
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If you hadn't moved in, maybe a black couple would have. Maybe that would have inspired the guy below you (who may well be a racist) to not move in at all. Or to move out, if he was already there.
What I'm saying is that there's no guarantee that it would have happened the same if you weren't there. It wasn't because of you, but it was because of what was all together that night when it went down.
As for what Sean was talking about - it's a very real and important thing to consider when you're talking about moving away from family or what have you. I don't know which apartments in Japan have burned down lately, but it isn't impossible that you could have been living in one of them, had you been over there.
There's no point in saying that you'll never have to face another fire, be it at an apartment or in your own home. That shit is sometimes random - electrical glitches - there's no guarantee.
I think Sean just meant that it was good that you were nearby people that cared about you, loved you, and would take care of you.
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