Another week has gone by without me making a single post. This was not what I had bargained for when I decided to start blogging. I know that other than a few family members no one is really interested in what I write. Is this the reason that I am not as profilic as I want to be?
The past two days have been all about the random and absolutely senseless shooting at the Virginia Tech University. I really don't know what to say. Is life so cheap that someone who is angry with the world and perhaps himself just decides to do away with the lives of his fellow students and teachers? Being so far away we can do a bit of head-shaking and comment on it, but what about all those parents, children, relatives of all those killed? It is not just about the 33 people killed, it is about 33 families destroyed. Not only of those people killed, but also of Cho's own family. I really wonder what his parents must be going through now and I really feel for them. This is the time for the USA to wake up and see reality. There should be strict rules about gun control in the country and the time has come to really implement it. When educational institutes and centers for learning become potential mine-fields where the chances of something like this happening are high, then what is the message that is being sent out? If not in a school, people can't feel safe, then where else?
The past two days have been all about the random and absolutely senseless shooting at the Virginia Tech University. I really don't know what to say. Is life so cheap that someone who is angry with the world and perhaps himself just decides to do away with the lives of his fellow students and teachers? Being so far away we can do a bit of head-shaking and comment on it, but what about all those parents, children, relatives of all those killed? It is not just about the 33 people killed, it is about 33 families destroyed. Not only of those people killed, but also of Cho's own family. I really wonder what his parents must be going through now and I really feel for them. This is the time for the USA to wake up and see reality. There should be strict rules about gun control in the country and the time has come to really implement it. When educational institutes and centers for learning become potential mine-fields where the chances of something like this happening are high, then what is the message that is being sent out? If not in a school, people can't feel safe, then where else?
One of mine and DH's long term plans with regard to the Princess and the Pilot was about their higher studies and further education. We started saving for them from the time they were born - if I remember correctly I opened savings accounts for them when they were about a month old. We want to save enough money that we can finance their education in any field that they want to study in (be it medicine, airplane pilot etc), and in whichever institute in any country that they get admission to. But with the world like this, I am so tempted to get my babies close to me and not let them out of my sight ever. But that will not happen. I had made a promise to myself that I will never be a clinging mom and will always let them do what they want! God help me!!
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