A Disappointing Tragedy - A Month Later

A month ago more than 30 people we killed on the Virginia Tech Campus. It seems that we have simply moved on. I really understand the feeling of the VA faculty and students wanting to be left alone so they can work out the terrible thing that happened. For the rest of the nation I believe that we should not forget. I will not be one to say what we should do but it seems that we try and deal with these things by just forgetting.

These problems will always resurface in one form or another because people allow themselves to think that their problems are due to other peoples actions. We like to blame others for what isn't going well for us. We are so accustomed to not taking our own responsibility that we will let things grow in magnitude on us as we shirk them continually. I believe that this was one problem likely faced by the killer. I feel so bad for him that he didn't consider that maybe there was a different solution that would if anything benefit him alone.

I hope that we can grow from this tragedy in ways that will benefit everyone, if only by benefiting ourselves.