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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
20:11
this week has gone by in a flurry and i wld say it has been the most emotional week this yr so far. i guess on top of all the homework and tests that have been kicking in, syf and other issues in life have surfaced and sometimes i find i cannot take it. i guess it's good that i still have the sanity to take a step back to review this all and see things from a clearer view and evaluate things so that they dont seem so daunting. mr joogal talked to us abt time management today and abt how there was this girl who committed suicide from stress. i spoke to jie abt it today too and she told me abt how this rly cheerful and happy-go-lucky girl in her yr hanged herself in her bedroom one night, sending shocks throughtout the school and how this physics lecture had said that sometimes we really have to understand that we do not live for ourselves alone. each time i hear the news of the shootings at the virginia tech university, i feel pangs of ache shoot through my heart. while i feel sad for the victims and their families, i feel even more so for the murderer himself and all the more for his parents. it is so true that this sense of grief knws no international boundaries. after reading how the professor had taken the bullets so many others could escape certainly brought some warmth to this cold blooded shooting and at the same time make me mourn over the loss of one such good man on earth. while i can say that God has already prepared places in heaven for those who have passed on in this incident, the pain and loss felt by the families of the victims is so unimaginable that noone but those who have gone through such an experience can ever understand. what pains me most is how the shooter could kill so many without batting an eyelid and to later turn the gun on himself in the face so that he was disfigured. what had tormented him to do such a terrible act and why was it that no one cuold have helped him? these are questions that perhaps are meant not to be answered. the legal possession of guns in the US has alwys been a sort of mystery to me. i do not see how the argument that guns are for "safety reasons" or for "defensive measures" stand at all. if no one had guns, why would anyone be afraid of being injured by one? and speaking of safety, just take a look at how many children are injured by guns every year in the US! i guess we can only take comfort in the thought that they have gone on to a better place and that God has everythg in control.