Another one
My journal entry from earlier today.
May 18, 2018 | 1:28 pm
Well, the unthinkable happened again today. At 10:00 am (ish) Another kid opened fire on another school. 8 dead, who knows how many injured. Like why? I heard the kid was 16. Like what causes this nonsense. It's a mad world out there I guess. The thing that scares me the most about this is the fact that I am feeling practically nothing. I mean I am sad and angry I guess. Those two feelings are just Surrounding me in numbness.
Is this what America has come to. Being numb to a Tragedy like this? This really should not be the case. I am pretty sure that bt 3:00 the initial shock is going to be over, and then people are going to start pushing politics on it. (See my tweet from earlier today). Heck Donald Trump shared his thoughts on it, so people are probably going to start twisting his words. Who knows how many people were pissed off about my tweet.
I hear that there were explosive devices on the school's grounds also. Like what the hell. The first thing that flies into my head is how did the parents not see anything off about him or her. Oh, right, If they are anything like my family, they probably had their heads buried in their phones.
Look, I am not going to try to defend the kid. His or her actions are his or her actions. Maybe they were not receiving enough attention at home or something. He might have been bullied, but that doesn't justify killing 8 people at least. We could always plead insanity, but kids are too young to play that card. I am a strong believer in mad people not being born, but rather they are made. Nature vs. Nurture I guess.
Anyways, I struggle with a type of hero complex, so you could only imagine the type of effect that this has on me. I keep thinking what could I have done to prevent this. That is worthless thinking though because heck, I live at least 1, 000 miles away from where this occured. Maybe this comes back to the whole influencer thing I wrote about at midnight last night. I should probably instead of thinking of what I could have done, and focus on what I can do to prevent future situations like this.
May 18, 2018 | 1:28 pm
Well, the unthinkable happened again today. At 10:00 am (ish) Another kid opened fire on another school. 8 dead, who knows how many injured. Like why? I heard the kid was 16. Like what causes this nonsense. It's a mad world out there I guess. The thing that scares me the most about this is the fact that I am feeling practically nothing. I mean I am sad and angry I guess. Those two feelings are just Surrounding me in numbness.
Is this what America has come to. Being numb to a Tragedy like this? This really should not be the case. I am pretty sure that bt 3:00 the initial shock is going to be over, and then people are going to start pushing politics on it. (See my tweet from earlier today). Heck Donald Trump shared his thoughts on it, so people are probably going to start twisting his words. Who knows how many people were pissed off about my tweet.
I hear that there were explosive devices on the school's grounds also. Like what the hell. The first thing that flies into my head is how did the parents not see anything off about him or her. Oh, right, If they are anything like my family, they probably had their heads buried in their phones.
Look, I am not going to try to defend the kid. His or her actions are his or her actions. Maybe they were not receiving enough attention at home or something. He might have been bullied, but that doesn't justify killing 8 people at least. We could always plead insanity, but kids are too young to play that card. I am a strong believer in mad people not being born, but rather they are made. Nature vs. Nurture I guess.
Anyways, I struggle with a type of hero complex, so you could only imagine the type of effect that this has on me. I keep thinking what could I have done to prevent this. That is worthless thinking though because heck, I live at least 1, 000 miles away from where this occured. Maybe this comes back to the whole influencer thing I wrote about at midnight last night. I should probably instead of thinking of what I could have done, and focus on what I can do to prevent future situations like this.