troubled times lie ahead
My heart goes out to the victims, their families, the survivors
& the entire student body / community of Virginia Tech.
It is such a tragedy, living in dark, troubled days...
and the knowledge that the young perpetrator will never be alone
to live his twisted fantasies of tearing people's lives apart.
Things like this make you look around and have a reality check.
On the extent of how selfish us human beings have become.
Things like this should make us check each other,
especially check ourselves...
About how we are, our priorities, our goals in life.
How little respect and care we interact with some people.
How our self-interests dominates our viewpoint.
Things like this should make each of us see the little part we play
of which the sum yields to dramatic events such as yesterday's shootings.
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For the victims of such tragedies,
and especially for the victims of lesser known, but far more widespread tragedies around the world...
One can only wish for their memories to not be put to shame.
One can only wish for their memories to serve each of us a lesson.
In life... and how the world needs a little less nitpicking anger and a lot more love towards one another.
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What totally disgusts me to see is to watch footage, read articles and read facebook comments on people trying to play the blame game. Just like they did for the Dawson, Columbine and Polytechnique shootings. It disgusts me when I hear idiocies such as "blame it on the video games, blame it on the music, blame it on unefficient gun control." It disgusts me to hear inappropriate attributions, judgments and stereotypes. And it makes my stomach churn and bile raise to my throat when people start saying atrocious, unbelievably racist, stereotypical comments filled with hate: things that murderers actually say to themselves, things that probably motivate others to kill.
Blame the guy. Don't attribute external factors: attribute internal dispositions. And letting hatred eat you away will do nothing but to propagate hatred and negativity, things that we really need less in this world.
And this is becoming yet another media circus. Pointless media frenzy.
I sympathize immensely with the grief surrounding this tragedy... but I just find it so incredibly unjust that these kinds of events will go on time and time again, whereas elsewhere in the world people are dying by the hundreds or thousands every single day.
Society is so ridiculously messed up.