The Tuscon shooting in Arizona disturbed me a lot. I’m still following the story now, mostly to know about the congresswoman’s progress in therapy. It’s really sad knowing she was super smart and an overachiever, and now she struggles to sing the ABC’s. Gah. Or at least last I read. They’re not saying very much about her progress. It’s awesome she survived, but hopefully she won’t be a vegetable. Apparently not, but as I say, tight lipped.
A lot of ’‘good’’ seems to have been drawn from this event, like people finding a sense of togetherness and community, and all the events that were created from the tragedy. On the other hand, does it really take a whole massacre, including the death of a little girl for people to act? Well, easy to say, but I’m no different. It’s depressing.
The recent events in Libya. It’s getting scary. The dude who runs the place was all like, oh so you guys wanna fuck around? Let’s fuck around. Now whether he means it or not, I see nothing but more death and war in the future. I guess this is a human thing, never stopped before, I don’t see why it would now. But these rising conflicts are really freaking me out.
The Gulf War in the early nineties. Haha I remember, I was pretty young back then, and for months this is all that was on the news. I remember watching it a lot, seeing live footage of piles of bodies everywhere, crammed in pickups and even tractors to be carried away. I think that left a scar in my brain to this day.