April 11, 2009
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This World… is so …
sad…. lostI went to school with a girl, I was never best friends with her. But I liked her, she was popular and pretty.. both her and her brother. Her mom was very involved in school activities. Worked at our highschool, knew all my brothers and always stopped to talk to me when I saw her around school or in town… her dad, was a coach at school, both knew my parents. Mom always liked them. They were very good people…
Last night the parents home was broken into.. the dad was reading his bible… his grandson was staying the night and his wife sleeping in the bed. They dragged the dad thru the house at gun point. The grandson hid. They pulled the wife out of bed.. beat her with the gun. The husband asked if she was ok, after she said she was.. they beat him to death with their gun and ran away.
I’ve not talked to this highschool friend… since highschool. I’ve not talked to a lot of people since highschool. But I was so sad to hear about this. It was her son who was staying with his grandparents when this happened.Several years ago I blogged about a friend of the family who was murdered by his crazy wife.. again a family my parents and I knew, they helped with youth football/cheerleading.. I grew up with their children.
Also years ago.. I wrote about the guy who listened to my silly little dj thing and sent me a tell/joke about cannibalism.. I mocked him.. calling him a weirdo.. telling him he needed to get out more.. get laid.. get friends. Months later he murdered a child.
These are just horrific crimes that have touched me personally…. it seems like an unusually high number… but maybe it’s not so unusual at all.
And while my own family was hit in a very tragic way (and just as pointless)… it wasn’t via such dark means. There was no evil involved. It was just a stupid accident.. a very stupid accident.
This world.. it’s such a horrible place. I know these things don’t mirror all of society… but … I start to wonder if it’s the majority. The statistics lean towards that. Throw in all these senseless killings based on religion… race… what side of town you live in… heck, just recently, some bored kids killed the dog of an ex Navy Seal.. FOR FUN… a hero to our country.. they kill his pet for shit & giggles. What… the.. fuck.
Do we hold nothing sacred? Animals? People? Heros? Do we .. love ANYTHING? Do we dream of anything other than pain and suffering… and fear?
What’s becoming of this world we’re stuck in… I used to believe “that in the end, everyone is good at heart”. When I read the Diary of Anne Frank… I truly believed her words, because if she could believe that after having lived as she did, it’d be incredibly weak of me not to. But now… I wonder. Maybe it’s just juvenile innocence that allows that luxury.. that ability to believe everything will work out in the end. I’ve learned.. many times it just doesn’t. And this makes me feel very, very old.
It also makes me want to find something small and beautiful in this world and hold on to it.. focus on it, and put blinders on to the rest of this insanity… blah.
Comments (7)
Those that do bad things in the name of religion are not led by God. They are led by Satan. We are told in the Word that Satan will rule this world for a time and that time is now. The hurt, cruelty and pain are real and so is Satan. The wonderful thing is that God is also real. Our true home will be when He returns. In the meantime, the instruction book (Holy Bible) tells us what to do while we are waiting. I pray that you will find peace and comfort through Jesus. You have only to ask Him.
I don’t have any advice because each day I hate people even more for the atrocities they do. I’m sorry the world is like this. Let’s go back in time 100 years and live there. Please.
Hi hon,
Random Acts Of Kindness may just save the world ! 
Just try to remember that for every wicked deed there are countless good ones taking place that go unreported and keep making the world a better place. Try to see the good things around you, and thank the people who make those small efforts which would otherwise go unthanked
Don’t concentrate on the killing – celebrate the fact that he lived and loved. It took a lot more effort to do that than the stupid act that took only minutes, so shouldn’t that be more important ?
The world’s still an amazing place, my friend. Enjoy it while we can !
Love
Gaz
*hugs*
There is much evil in the world, but there is also much good. I think one of the reasons why we tend to remember the bad more easily is that we tend to remember what hurts us more than what rewards us. This is what makes people who take pleasure in hurting others so dangerous…. it is a double whammy. Nothing is sacred to these people.
I was really good friends with this one guy in high school and college. I eventually ended that friendship because I became convinced he is going to do something absolutely horrific one day. He was my best friend. He did things simply to get a reaction, and they were pretty twisted things. If I got mad, he’d revel in it…. yet he was dumbfounded why I ended our friendship. Some people are that self centered.
I have had other friends though, that truly inspired me. One of these friends when I worked at Borders would sort through the trash for things to recycle and recycle it herself so she could make a small difference in the world (Borders didn’t recycle). She worked hotlines for battered women, at one time she even led the local Peace Resource Center. She was amazing.
My gripe in life is that the people who I’ve loved the most in life sometimes wind up being shooting stars…. brief, influential, and brilliant…. then gone. Sometimes they move, sometimes they commit suicide because they know how to love others, but not themselves. However, it is my hope that these “shooting stars” have influenced my life enough to counterbalance the psychopaths and sociopaths that I also encounter.
I could give you a religious answer, but I don’t think you are looking for God. I think you are looking for humanity.
I have to cover stories involving a lot of violent crime ever since I started working at the radio station. I asked a co-worker how she handled it, and I’ll never forget what she told me. “All we can do is make it a point to love, and hope others follow suit. Because you never know when you may just be someone else’s shining light in the otherwise dark abyss.”
Our minds compare things to what they are next to. Not my opinion, cognitive fact.
Go on I tunes and listen to a podcast called Hardcore History. It’s free, and it will tell you more of the real stories of what humanity went through to get to this current time that the news and religion are telling us is so “horrible.”
We live in a golden age. I hope you can find the outlook to see that and strong arms to hold you while you consider it. Not doing so would be a REAL modern tragedy.