Tital Wave

So this tital wave killed all kinds of people around the coast of Indonesia. I was thinking about it just now and about how everywhere I go I see something like "think about the people of asia" and "our hearts are with [those people]." But when something that big happens so far away from where we live, it makes you think. And in my case, it makes me think "why should I be sad about this?" I mean, I don't know any of those people, or even anybody else who knew them. That might sound mean or inconsiderate, but it's the truth. It's not like some injustice that we can solve and figure out ways and lend our support to help them overcome. No, it was a natural disaster. Of course we can send them money to help with the damage, which makes sense. But as far as being sad for those people... I dunno. It seems like we don't really need to.
I mean, we are only sad about it because they are close to us. And when I say "close", I mean that they share our species, our planet and our time period. For example, we don't care about incidents in the past in which 400,000 people have died in a single natural disaster. We don't care about incidents in the future that will surely contain tragedy. We don't care about entire species of insects being wiped out. We don't care about tragedy that most likely takes place on other planets. Those things sound like "weird" things to care about or "lend our hearts and minds" to. But that is just because those incidents aren't as "close" to you as the tital wave that recently killed many of our fellow humans. When we "lend our hearts" we are really just caring about how it effects us now in the present. And I don't mean physically affects us either, it can be mental.
For instance, the Triangle Shirt Waist fire of 1911 in NYC doesn't bother us nearly as much as the World Trade Center attack on 9/11 (of a recent year) in NYC even though all the victims died in the same place in the same way. The key is that 911 was recent and in our time period. That brings it closer to us. Now you can compare your reaction to 911 to the recent Tital Wave. Way more people were involved in the tital wave, but 911 surely made a bigger impact on us Americans. Again, due this is due to the closeness. Now compare an American's reaction to 911, which killed many people, to that same person's reaction that a loved one has died. The loved one, being so close, makes a much larger impact. Of course you most likely already understood that the relativity of how "close" something is to you makes so much of a difference. But you may not have thought of how we only "lend our hearts" to the Asians because they are close to us in a way you may not have thought of. Now you should think about the ice age and all the people it froze. Lend your heart to that! Lend it! I bet you haven't before.