Everything's Fucked
My feelings about the killing rampage in Virginia are... well, all I can think about is the obvious trauma that has surely affected anyone who was associated with Virginia Tech. I have avoided most TV coverage of the event, but this morning I read an article in one of our local papers. They mentioned blood in random places on the sidewalks around campus. Also students lined up and executed. This is a fucked world that allows someone to fall so deeply through the cracks that they become invisible to the point that they can successfully and without impediment carry out such an atrocity.
I don't know what else to say about it. It's another fucked up thing that happens in this fucked up world. My nephew goes to college in D.C. and I think of him. The families of the victims must simply be in hell right now. Total hell.
Maybe it's the potato vodka. But I need to cry now.
I don't know what else to say about it. It's another fucked up thing that happens in this fucked up world. My nephew goes to college in D.C. and I think of him. The families of the victims must simply be in hell right now. Total hell.
Maybe it's the potato vodka. But I need to cry now.
posted by Black Egg at 8:44 PM
3 Comments:
its shocking enough to want to cry. i feel you on that. i dont even know anybody even closely involved but my angels are with them...
If one makes the assumption that destiny is a real thing - what does this whole thing mean? I'm about as sold on destiny as I am on love - not very. The randomness of this is what makes it so traumatic. That life can be normal and then the complete opposite of normal. Twisted and blackened by a person's illness, psychosis. The soft vulnerability of innocence lost so carelessly. This kid - the killer - it just seems like every possible thing went wrong for him, and that his life had been spiralling out of control for too many years - and that's not an excuse. It's just a tragedy.
i agree with you- it's horrible that this kid didn't get the help he needed. He slipped through the cracks of our overburdened system and this is the result. I don't know if I believe in destiny- I think if there were such a thing as destiny it would have to keep changing as we make choices in our lives and as things happen to us from outside. There's too much that can change day to day, year to year that can change our course for me to believe in that.I suppose that could be a good or a bad thing. Depending on the day...
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