The earthquake in Haiti never happened.

I read a news article about orphans in Haiti. A nine year-old girl named Ana is mentioned. The poor child had been living with her older sister and though a volunteer located her, the sister will not take her back now because conditions are so much worse for her and her own children after the earthquake. What earthquake? Poor Ana has been so traumatized that she doesn't even remember any earthquake. Certainly, in spite of being surrounded by the devastation, if there is no memory, then there could not have been an earthquake, right? What is the matter with that poor, dumb child? Why is she unhappy? Maybe some nice American idiot * (scroll down to the highlighted portion of the link) will adopt this girl and give her that bit of wisdom. Or when she cries for her family, maybe the orphanage director should just tell her to stow it and think happy thoughts. All she really needs is a positive attitude and some yoga. I gotta hand it to the kid, though. She is doing her damnedest to live entirely in the present moment, the here and now, or whatever else any lying therapist wants to call it. The kid is a true genius. Old Guy would be so fucking proud of her! She'd be fine now if she would just quit whining. People would like her better then and it would keep her from losing anyone else in the aftermath of the non-existent earthquake. Come on, kid. You can do it! So what if it makes you stupid and a victim of future traumas? You will forget those traumas when they're over, too, because they won't be the present moment anymore! And there are SO many oranges waiting to be mindfully peeled... The world is your oyster.


* "Ask any child exposed to the recent earthquake in Haiti if they "repressed it." None will. True trauma will always be remembered." -- Susan Clancy - former Harvard psychologist and author of books that support the denial that discounts people like me