It seems like every day, you hear on the news about a mass shooting or active shooter or someone going to a kid's freaking birthday party with a knife and going crazy. Every day, it seems like there is a new tragedy, a new occurrence of people losing their life over something stupid.
I'm starting to notice that all of it is just becoming news.
And that scares me.
It's not affecting me the way it used to. I'm not getting sad or angry or emotional. I see it and I'm just like "well...that sucks" and go on about my day.
I think I've become desensitized to it.
And that scares me.
I'm starting to notice that all of it is just becoming news.
And that scares me.
It's not affecting me the way it used to. I'm not getting sad or angry or emotional. I see it and I'm just like "well...that sucks" and go on about my day.
I think I've become desensitized to it.
And that scares me.
When we become desensitized to these tragedies, change stops. The fight to make change stops. The fight to be the voice for the voiceless stops.
That scares me.
This country is spiraling to Hell faster than ever before and the need for change is greater than ever. But we can't make that change if the news isn't having any kind of affect on us. It scares me to think about the world we are leaving for our children, our grand children, our great grand children. What will they have to deal with if we stop feeling?
As a child, these things didn't bother me.
As an adult? Well, I'm starting to realize that monsters ARE real and they are all around us. They are running our country, they are deciding our future.
That scares me.
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My subject was "What seems scarier the older you get?" and it was submitted by The Lieber Family Blog. Thank you for the thought provoking prompt!
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So many things scare me and you're right, we've become desensitized to violence. But also to lying, to bigotry, to misuse of power, to so many things I don't know where it ends.
ReplyDeleteI sorry about this too. My grandchildren start school next year and the thought makes me panic. My husband also works in a huge factory and I worry about a shooting there. There are monsters and they are everywhere you're so right!
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job using your prompt, and I can relate to what you say. I wish I had a solution. I agree, the people running this country are not contributing to making America "great again", on the very contrary :-(
ReplyDeleteHardly any of it fazes me anymore... so many stories every time we turn around that we are supposed to be outraged about and at this point, I just feel numb. I know what needs to change, for sure. I know when something is wrong. But I am uncomfortably numb over all of it, and it, indeed, scares me.
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