graves of public places

We've heard of high school shootings. It's not so hard to picture when you take into account out of proportion teenage angst added with some kid's negative environment. Today's news was hard to identify with because when I think of a university I think of a controlled atmosphere where matured minds are plenty and welcome. At Virginia Tech, the death toll made it up to 33 people.

There is only so much the rest of us can say about our reactions. Big events like these always seem like movies, but then again we are all watching it on t.v. lounging on the sofa. In the end it can affect us but we still can turn off the television. I've been trying to focus on this as a serious event and not just walk away and forget it with the next day. As much as it's natural to feel that it has nothing to do with me, it was something that may as well of happened across the world, I want to do my best to see it as a reality. Because some people can't just turn it off.

I imed a friend about it earlier all we could say were adjectives like "horrible" "terrible" and "unimaginable". It all felt so quaint to say. The newscasts showed the school's colorless buildings along with light slow falling snow which did something to seal the image for me. It even appeared to be a transformed environment. It's hard to grasp that a man would kill multiple people, people he never had a reason to hate.

After seeing the lives lost today, I was surprised by the tears that came and held a small vigil on my own. There are just some events that make you see little humanity in the world for a small amount of time. Discussing it helped, in these situations there are no easy answers. Especially since a murderer is also a victim, one can only guess at the instability he was facing. My deepest sympathies go out to all in the Roanoke communities.