I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately, and it’s often 4 or 5 am with the sky just beginning to lighten when I can finally drop off. Yesterday I didn’t fall asleep until past 3, and later found out I’d slept soundly through a 5.5 tremor that happened at about 7:30 am.
Later in the day, I told a friend it worried me that I’d been able to sleep right through it. I might have been in danger.
“Don’t worry, it was only a 5.5,” she replied.
“That’s true.”
A few seconds later it hit us: who could have imagine a month ago that we’d be sitting here calmly dismissing an earthquake that was 5.5 on the Richter scale?
As another friend of mine so aptly put it, this is our “new normal.”
Tags: Kathmandu, little things, Nepal earthquake