When I first started this blog, my
goal was to be as light-hearted and amusing as possible. I’ve always tried to
put aside personal issues and not address current events or public incidents
that occur in our society. But with the recent occurrences that have been
taking place lately, I just can’t find it in myself to be funny or interesting. So instead, I’m going to address the shooting that took place in Newtown
just last Friday.
On the morning of December 14th,
2012, Adam Lanza shot down 20 children and 6 adults in Sandy Hook Elementary
School, the very school he once attended, after previously killing his own
mother. He then proceeded to commit suicide himself. I honestly cannot begin to
think about what could drive somebody to go into an elementary school and take
the lives of those who haven’t even had the chance to live yet. Adam, I’m not
sure if they have Internet in hell, but I just need to know why you did it. I
think everyone needs to know. What occurrence or event could possibly drive you
to be so angry or feel so alone that you deprived not only 20 angelic children,
but 20 entire families of a lifetime of happiness?
There are times in every person’s
life when you just have to take a step back and think about what it means to be
human. The world is supposed to end in a week, and there’s obviously
controversy as to how true that theory is. But regardless, the one thing I know
is this: Even if the world doesn’t end, humanity is already dying. Not only did
Adam Lanza commit a crime that would bring even the most disgusting of human
beings to tears, he simultaneously destroyed every image of security and
mortality that Americans lived under. The damage Lanza caused was simple, just
the pull of a trigger. But the aftermath of such a heinous crime is going to
take months, maybe years to overcome emotionally.
The entire community of Newtown has had their
reassurance and security abruptly snatched from beneath their feet. For every
child that died in the massacre, there are brothers and sisters and parents and
friends who also had a part of their hearts die that day. But I don’t hate you
Adam Lanza. In fact, I feel nothing but sorrow for you. I’m sorry that you felt
so much loathing, so much detestation, and so much disgust that you could look
into the innocent faces of six year old angels and open fire on them. I’m sorry
that the monster inside of you felt the need to expose itself last Friday and
show the world how ugly an individual really can be. But I refuse to hate you
because I refuse to feel the hatred that you felt that morning. After all, if
we all start hating one another, how are we any better than you?
That’s why instead of feeling the
burning, scathing, deep, loathing that we all want to feel, we should instead focus
on ourselves, focus on how to be better individuals, and focus on loving one
another. If we come together and keep the victims in our prayers, the bad deeds
of scum like Lanza everywhere can be overcome by the general love of good
people. Because even today, even after the revolting things you did Adam, I still
believe that you had a good soul. And I still believe that people are good.
***Please pray for the victims of Sandy Hook Elementary
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