Temporary & Dogs Still Cross Roads
I've sat here and re wrote this and re thought
this out countless times since Monday when this happened. We know their names,
we know where they are from, and we will know more in the coming days and weeks
and possible months. As I sit here though and think about it, why do we care
about the why? The why won't bring anyone back, the why won't solve anything.
The only thing that matters to me is peace, and these "kids" shot
that down in an instant. Love and compassion for your neighbor shot down.
Fortunately though the people of Boston came together and helped with what they
could.
Now, I'm just some guy behind a few key strokes
in a warehouse in Cincinnati, Ohio reflecting about the crazy week that has
evolved and keeps evolving. I am reminded of something my cousin said just this
morning "I don't understand this. With all the beauty this world has why
is there so much hate? I just don't understand it." I don't either. In my
humblest of opinions this world is filled with so much more beauty, good, and
love than there is hate or so it may seem. I feel there is though. That eight
year old boy that died in the blast on Monday was seen in pictures smiling but
in one he was holding a sign that read "No More hurting people, peace."
When I heard that yesterday following my girlfriend to get something to eat I
cried. I welled up inside because if an eight year old can see the hatred in
people and only wants peace than why can't everyone else? It seems as if this
has been a fight for decade upon decade upon decade upon decade. I'd like to
take that boy's statement and wear it proudly in honor of him, and in honor of
the meaning behind it.
Look I may not agree with my government or some
religious folks or people in general but that doesn't mean I am going to plot
out a way to kill them and in the process kill myself. I guess that's the
difference between me and them. I still feel for peoples that have been done
wrong by this the United States of America. Some peoples have been helped and
when the shit hit the fan the USA were nowhere to be found. That's a lonely
feeling and that cuts deep to these sometimes third world countries, but it
still gives no human being to take a life of another. I guess you can only be pushed
into a corner for so long to where you finally snap as well.
What happened on Monday though doesn't seem like
that though to me, but what do I know? All I do know is that there are
families, innocent in whatever these crazy kids idea was who have family
members that won't come back and that have been maimed. To that pure hatred I
just don't understand. Flat out just don't understand. There is no rhyme or
reason to this. When you conduct this act of violence your "cause" is
not just and to me there is no "justifying." You can explain but you
will get no sympathy from me. I can forgive yes, but I cannot and will not sympathize
with you.
I’m just reminded of what that little boy had
wrote on a poster board. Five words that we should all take stock of. Five
words that quit honestly speak volumes of morality. That if you can’t be
touched by that, even a little bit, well I just don’t know what to say to you.
In concluding this thing here I guess just be
good people. There is always someone who has it worse, and we all are in this
thing together. Life is temporary and dogs will still cross roads but at the
end of the day treating people kindly is a lot more gratifying than the
alternative.
