Wednesday, September 13, 2006
"Your friends hold the lullabies they watch the way the night lies soft sounds, and talk radio hearts wrapped in blankets laying low hearts wrapped in blankets laying low."
-Stars: Look up
We are reminded just how meaningless and small our problems really are when we are faced with something of this magnitude.
I am one of the 10 000 students who attend Dawson College. My humanities class was cancelled today so I left earlier than I usually would have.
Would things be different if I had stayed a few more minutes? Would I be here?
4 dead. That's what it said on the news. 4 dead.
I can't even begin to even try grasp the impact this will have, the loss so many will suffer.
How could someone decide to end the lives of innocent people they had never really known? I ask this and yet i sincerely hope that i never come to understand that kind of cruelty.
My friend was in the school when it happened. Thankfully she was out of the school and safe when I called her. My heart is still quivering with the thought of losing her. It's times like these that remind us what is really important.
I wish someone would just hold me and tell me everything is going to be okay-that this wasn't real and that they will keep me safe forever.
But that's not reality. Reality is any day could be your last, so live life. Really live it with all of your heart, because there are those who do not have the chance to.
1:13 PM
