In which I am callous and obnoxious. You have been forewarned.
Virginia Tech: Horrible tragedy. Can we stop talking about it, please?
My gut reaction to this sort of thing is, apparently, to want to cover my ears and eyes and go bury my head in the sand. I felt similarly about 9/11. I remember sitting in seventh period Spanish watching analysts and just thinking "please make it go away, I want to go home and hug my mommy."
And maybe this is just me, but if I were to die in a similar situation, I wouldn't want to be on national news. I wouldn't want the sympathy of millions of people who'd never met me, because I'd had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'd want the people who knew and loved me to remember me fondly, commemorate me, and then get on with their lives and be happy.
So maybe my irritation with Virginia Tech all over the news makes me a shitty person. Oh well. (And probably, posting about it makes me a hypocrite too! Hooray.)
We had a bomb threat on campus yesterday. And I was annoyed, because it took me longer to get places. That's probably an irrational reaction too. Do I just feel safe, all wrapped in my happy middle-class-white-girl-from-the-Midwestern-suburbs life? Of course there were the news helicopters, circling like vultures, and I was annoyed by the constant droning too.
So yes, it is a crazy world, and I don't know how to react to it anymore.
My gut reaction to this sort of thing is, apparently, to want to cover my ears and eyes and go bury my head in the sand. I felt similarly about 9/11. I remember sitting in seventh period Spanish watching analysts and just thinking "please make it go away, I want to go home and hug my mommy."
And maybe this is just me, but if I were to die in a similar situation, I wouldn't want to be on national news. I wouldn't want the sympathy of millions of people who'd never met me, because I'd had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'd want the people who knew and loved me to remember me fondly, commemorate me, and then get on with their lives and be happy.
So maybe my irritation with Virginia Tech all over the news makes me a shitty person. Oh well. (And probably, posting about it makes me a hypocrite too! Hooray.)
We had a bomb threat on campus yesterday. And I was annoyed, because it took me longer to get places. That's probably an irrational reaction too. Do I just feel safe, all wrapped in my happy middle-class-white-girl-from-the-Midwestern-suburbs life? Of course there were the news helicopters, circling like vultures, and I was annoyed by the constant droning too.
So yes, it is a crazy world, and I don't know how to react to it anymore.