I would feel bad to go out with my friends and celebrate when so many people dont have a place to live and no friends or family to have the opportunity celebrate with. What should i do? I feel really uneasy about it. Last year I was at the cheesecake factory stuffing my face with food when the storm happened. I still feel bad about that.
2006-08-28 03:27:04 · 12 answers · asked by ♣DreamDancer♣ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
thanks guys and i have donated and volunteered for katrina relief. some of the evacuees are in my city. i just dont feel right having a good time.
2006-08-28 04:21:34 · update #1
Happy Birthday sweetie. You are so kind to be concerned but take everyones advice and celebrate your birthday and life. Spend it with family and friends. Go to New Orleans if you can and spend your money where its needed. If you can't and it makes you feel better have a Katrina fund raiser themed party and donate the proceeds to help rebuild the city or to a charity that will benifit survivors. Bless you for being so sweet.
2006-08-28 04:13:01 · answer #1 · answered by psykobarbi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best thing you could do would be to get together with your friends and fly down to New Orleans for the weekend to celebrate. Spending your tourist dollars is the best thing you could possibly do to help rebuilding, and you'd have an incredibly fun birthday you'll never forget! I was just there in April and it was wonderful -- very satisfying for the soul (and stomach).
But if you can't get out of town, why not celebrate your birthday with your friends, but ask everyone to bring canned goods or other non-perishable food? The next day you can donate it to a local homeless shelter or food depository.
Or, if you really want to help only Katrina victims, you could have a party and pass a hat, then donate whatever you raise to the New Orleans Musician's Clinic, Tipitina Foundation, the Craft Emergency Relief Fund, or some other charity of your choice that's doing grassroots relief work down in the Gulf.
Happy birthday to you -- you seem like a wonderful person with a big heart! Enjoy your day.
2006-08-28 10:45:52 · answer #2 · answered by Kim 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I understand your hesitancy to celebrate tomorrow. I too am from Katrina country and I have two friends who had birthdays the day before and the day after the storm. They too do not feel like celebrating. Perhaps wait a day or so and then have a get-together with your friends if you feel uncomfortable doing so tomorrow. Try not to dwell on the storm too much tomorrow and know that someday it will be better. That is what I plan to do and also am going to attend a memorial service. Perhaps that would help you.
2006-08-28 10:37:12 · answer #3 · answered by Shar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor thing...I feel for you...thank God you are senstive enough to think of others....
I am sorry I can't stop laughing. I am picturing you stuffing your face with cheesecake.....
I do understand how you feel, there is so much suffering still going on down there. To say the least I am so disappointed in our government.
It is your birthday!!!!!! I am sure you have donated to the N.O. cause....If your birthday was on any other day you would still celebrate it. There is pain and suffering all over the world. Why don't you rejoice for the human spirit of New Orleans and all of the individual citizens who were able to help.
Life is a celebration...enjoy your birthday...My baby's Bday is the 29th too
2006-08-28 11:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by Annie R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death and catastrophes are both a part of life. Part of living requires us to deal with or cope with both eventualities.
I understand the quilt and uneasiness you feel about celebrating on the anniversary of such a tragic event. I doubt, however, that anyone from the stricken areas expects you to cancel your birthday celebrations for the rest of your life because of what happened to them. If one were to put their mind to the task, one could fill every date on a calendar with some tragic event in history. Would that mean that everyone should stop celebrating? No.
I doubt that those that died during Katrina, nor those that survived her, would expect you to quit living life normally either. Just like 9/11, Katrina will live on as one of the most memorable events in our lifetimes. Both of these big events still feel raw to most of us that watched what happened on television, and to those that experienced the events in a more personal way. As the generations that follow us learn about both events, each will hold less personal meaning and become more of a notation in history books.
Go out and celebrate your birthday. Celebrate life with your friends and family.
Happy Birthday and Good luck!
Will D
Enterprise AL
http://www.notagz.com
2006-08-28 10:50:38 · answer #5 · answered by Will D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why feel bad? It was a natural disaster, you can't control that. You still have to live your life just as you would as if it didn't happen. I wouldn't let it control your birthday like that. I know people with the Sept. 11th birthday, yet they just keep on celebrating it, life has to go on. So have fun you only have one birthday per year. People still celebrate their Dec. 7th (Pearl Harbor) birthdays without feeling guilt. I think something like war would affect people more too. I understand your being upset, but don't let it ruin your day. And, if it hit the 30th would you even be asking this? You may not be and just be having fun on your birthday without thinking about what happened.
2006-08-28 16:11:07 · answer #6 · answered by Nate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you may want to search around for people that have there birthdays on 9-11. What do they do? What about all the babies that were born on those two days? Do you believe that there birthdays should suffer for the rest of there lives? I think that we should all count our blessings for what we have and be thankful to our higher power in life what ever that maybe. Without a doubt in mind you should do what makes you comfortable and I hope that is to celebrate
2006-08-28 11:05:25 · answer #7 · answered by Marianne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont feel bad about things you cant control. if you have a hard time with this, help these people then. send a donation or help send books to the schools that lost everything. scholastic books is doing a book drive right now.if we thought about bad stuff all the time, it would be depressing!just get through you day, im sure the people left by Katrina will not care one bit about how much cake you are eating.
2006-08-28 10:34:44 · answer #8 · answered by wifeofsickening 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is nothing wrong with celebrating your birthday on the same day as the anniversary of katrina. did you know anyone or do you any of your friends know anyone that was affected by katrina? if it really bothers you, you could just celebrate it this weekend instead. its nice of you to be concerned, but i wouldn't worry about it.
2006-08-28 10:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by Niecy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go celebrate your life. You had no control over this storm or the people who suffered from it.
2006-08-28 10:55:51 · answer #10 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋