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 > > > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com