My sister once told me that my thoughts are so "piecey" that I really don't have a train -- I must have jumped it as soon as I got on. She calls what I have "abandoned random": a very cutesy name (however poetic) for a very serious (or not so serious) condition, I suppose. As a high school student, I find the incident at Columbine particularly disturbing. (Disturbing really isn't the correct word choice, but as far as I can tell, the least graphic.) I went to sleep Tuesday night in one world only to wake up Wednesday morning in another. In fact, I fell asleep to the 11 o'clock news -- my first chance to hear the whole story -- thinking I was dreaming the whole thing. I woke up the next morning to find that I hadn't. My nightmare was truly a reality. This tragedy opened up a whole new view of the world I live in. While sitting at my lunch table the other day, I was reading the paper -- I'm doing a video journalism bit on the events at Columbine for our high school's TV show, so I was reading up on what I already knew. Two teenage girls came by, began to read over my shoulder, and I SWEAR to you, they had no clue. Neither of them even knew what the two "gunmen" (the news calls them gunmen, I call them "boys") looked like, let alone their names and how many were killed or injured. I would assume they didn't even know what state it happened in. (I wouldn't put it past these two 16-year olds to know what day it was, actually.) But the thing that gets me is, this is the nation's future? These two girls are representing a LARGE portion of America's youth -- CLUELESS youth. Must all teenagers live in their own little world? Or is there a way they can learn to open their minds and their hearts to the world around them? -- Meredith Kay _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com