This. I live 45 minutes away from where this happened today. Our DSL connection was wonky until after 3pm and we’ve all been sick in bed, so I didn’t even know it had happened until after the DSL technician came by to fix the connection and it was the top news story on the page when it came up.
My husband and I don’t know anyone that was involved–but I am still just…overwhelmed and sad. I’ve always been one to feel things pretty deeply, but ever since being pregnant and having Owen, anything bad is magnified by a hundred or more percent. I know it isn’t healthy, but events like what occured today make me just want to hold Owen and my husband so tightly, shut everything else in the world out and just never leave the house again. I get angry like everyone else but I can’t even fathom what level of rage would result in such an outcome. I can’t even put into words the feelings this evokes when I think about what if this were my child? What about the terror of the students who lived through it? And of course the question that everyone else is asking–why?
I just don’t understand.
glittersmama says:
A good day to be home sick the in the bed with those you love most. The world is definitely becoming a scarier place.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:58 am
bitetherabbit says:
Someone once told me that once you get pregnant things like this rock you to the core because any child could be your child. Those people who were murdered are someone else’s babies and that hits me hard.
Why, indeed.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Jill says:
It’s hard to imagine that there are people in this world who do not feel the desire for peace that we have. If only people like Cho could realize that there’s more to life than violence.
April 17th, 2007 at 11:10 pm