xkitten14x, you feel what many of us feel. Nothing to feel bad about.

When we learn about Titanic, we are comforted that there was an occurance like that disaster that did happen, and that we can learn from.

Lets face it, the absolute unthinkable happend, the pride of the early 20th century was shattered to pieces within a matter of hours by about 12 square feet of damage from ice.

We live in the modern world and there are many wonderful things to help us live a better life, technology one of them.

But with all of these advances in medicines, space exploration, or computers, we still know that the absolute unthinkable can happen, whether it be September 11th, or a breakup with a person you always thought you would always be together with.

In some ways, 2006, is not really that different from 1912. We put our livelyhoods in the faith of machines (cars,computers, cell phones, ipods or whatever), and we live in a world that can erupt into chaos any minute.

There is one difference though. Back in 1912, as Walter Lord stated "They were confident" (that is, they thought they were about to solve most of the worlds biggest problems). Look what happened after the Titanic- two years later WWI started.

Today, we know that we cannot create a perfect world, and there will always be death and destruction. So knowing about the Titanic, or any other horrible disaster lets us know that life does have its low points but life does go on.