Re: abandoned random

Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Tue, 11 May 1999 18:01:08 -0700 (PDT)

Your new-found awareness to the ugly world doesn't mean the ugliness is new: 
just your perception thereof.  The world has been going to hell in a 
handbasket since the dawn of time, if you listen to the nay-sayers.  I have 
faith in us as a collective race, but not as individuals.  There are always 
wackos.  Ain't nothin new under the sun.  Welcome to the real world & get 
used to it.

Thor



>
>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
>
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