This has been a horribilus week. Monday morning on the way to work, I hear about the VT shooting on the radio and it just shook me up, remembering what Ming said (with some sarcasm) during the time we were all together in Dec about American society. Then came the rather traumatic email exchange with someone and the onset of a bad cold because the weather has been a little freaky. It has turned from spring into a kind of winter with temperatures plummeting and rain when it was just bright and sunny just days before. I have been wheezing and blowing into a lot of tissues while trying to defend my family values and feverishly working next year's budget for my team. And fearing for the struggle of one my own to pass her exams. Aiyah, altogether a lousy week.
We have been watching the news broadcasts nightly and it is so sad how a deranged young person left untreated for years finally lost his tethers and massacred so many innocent people. I pity his poor family - how are they going to deal with the grief, the horror and the shame for the rest of their natural lives. And for the families of those slained - how are they going to come to terms with their loved ones being suddenly and senselessly snatched away? So many so young and one who actually survived the horror of holocaust so many years ago.
Why is this scene repeated so often in America? When will they tighten up gun control and when will society recognize that mental illness is not something to be ashamed of, to hide in the family closet but a real disease that should receive the same attention, care and funding as any other physical illness? That it should be easy for families with such problems to ask for and receive help.
So many people issues this week. Sigh.
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