2/20

Why do people pretend to care about other people? Why does an event like the collapse of the Twin Towers evoke intense emotion, but the 65-year-old grandmother who tried to swallow but choked on a piece of pork loin get no recognition?

More specifically, why do I have to be regarded as such an asshole for realizing that it is perfectly OK to NOT care about anything except what and who you know?

This happened to me yesterday, a brief conversation with this Korean girl I work with: "Oh, I am so sad about the subway," she said (or something to that effect). (Referencing the recent subway disaster in S. Korea, her homeland.) "I don't care" was my reply. Because I don't care. At all. But she was upset because I didn't bullshit her and use tact. She shouldn't have said anything to me in the first place.

Here's the deal: I care more about accidentally clipping my dog's nail too short than I do about 200 dead Koreans. In fact, I would rather pick a person at random from the phonebook and kill them to preserve the life of my dog.

So I'm an asshole. But boy oh boy, do I care about my dogs.