Glad you're safe.
Actually it's surprising how fast you get used to it. Brussels isn't exactly my city because well I don't live there. I do go there a lot. From where I live approx. 15-25 minutes by car + the metro station they blew up was the one where I took another metro to go the University for a year. The airport the one I frequent.
The aftermath is quite absurd though. Military men everywhere; today you can still see them but in lesser numbers. I remember the day after; I went to see the movies in Antwerp and there were military vehicles in front of the complex. Not a lot of people could be bothered to go and see a movie so it was just me and my mate; and in the back near the entrance a military man with a gun. Absurd.
It's like a loss of innocence.
I think it's important not to let it get to you. It's exactly what the terrorists want. Unfortunately our authorities and the media do not have the brains to see this.
I can't help but wonder that with a 1930s stiff upper lip attitude the terrorists would be fighting a losing cause. These days they see our authorities respond by openly curtailing our liberties, snooping, spying, and us accepting armed paramilitary police as a matter of course. People react by not doing the things they want, or going to places that have been blighted.
In a world where the west has systematically alienated, exploited and warred against the east for the last 1000+ years, today it has spawned a cause where anybody from anywhere with a grudge can do some barbaric act and call it terrorism by aligning with the IS.
Trouble is, the elite in the west have also started alienating its own young, with the vast difference in wealth and opportunity that is being manufactured. It's no surprise when one of our own gets "recruited" to the terrorist cause.
I think the solution is that humans need to treat one another as fellow humans, not as a commodity or customer there to be exploited.
