Terrorist Attack in Mumbai

I just now woke up with a text message from Sage. I didn't know anything about the attacks as I was asleep in my bed in Ahmedabad. I don't quite know what to say just yet, except that I am perfectly fine and safe.

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I checked in with an Indian friend of mine in Mumbai and he was also safely at home away from that area of town. While it is a beautiful day in Ahmedabad and I have a meeting in a few hours that I have been waiting for since I arrived, still I feel, as I did in July, totally shaken. That area of Mumbai, not the fancy hotels (which I cannot at all afford) but the area in general, had sort of become a getaway place for me, and it felt safe. I certainly know all of those places. I don't really understand how it's possible, but somehow if you are not directly impacted by these tragedies, you just keep going. There have been so many attacks in India in recent years, so many horrible attacks, and yet everyone else has to just hope that it will not come any closer. Knowing that Americans were one of the targets does concern me, as there is really no hiding one's nationality, but there are relatively few Americans and foreigners in general in this area of the country, I think that makes me feel a little better.

It is certainly days like today that I am confused about being here, confused about what I am doing and utterly homesick.