What is wrong with the world?

[goingcrazy]

The recent mass shooting in a school has made me feel so worthless. Like I want to do something to fix this world. It is so messed up. The guy who shot everyone also died. If he wanted to die, he shouldn't have taken so many innocent people with him. 27. 20 of them were kids between the ages of 5 and 10. 7 were adults. And I feel powerless to do a single thing. It makes me not want to live in this world anymore. I just feel like, I wish i could trade my life for for the kids who were killed. Give them back their lives in return for mine. It seems so unfair. I know I'm only a teenager, but I don't want to be here. There are so many wrong things in the world. Dying isn't going to fix any of them, believe me, I know that, but I feel as if society is so messed up, and I don't want to be a part of it.

 

[MikeyC]

I completely understand your feelings. I have no advice to combat them, but I know exactly where you're coming from.

 

[Section_31]

I empathize and share your feelings and grief.

I try to live as if the world were how it should be, to show it what it can be.

Unfortunately people like this individual are not only suicidal but very mentally sick, and sometimes selfish. And lives of others mean nothing to them.

I completely understand your feelings. Group hug!.

 

[bcsr]

just try to remember that there is a lot of good in this world, too... it just doesn't make the headlines the way tragedy does.

 

[laure15]

This world is messed up in all sorts of ways. Honestly, I don't really know why this is the case; maybe it's the chemical-laced food that we eat, the society that puts pressures on us, the media that make us desire more than we can want, etc etc. Some people say mental health isn't as important as physical health and that psychiatry is just a hoax, but I disagree. We shouldn't ignore one in favor of the other.

 

[OCDd]

i know exactly how you feel. i wish their was more i could do about it though. Sadly some people cant control themselves and its sad cause no the people who died didn't deserve to die but on the other hand, the guy who shot them didn't deserve to loose control and just go on a rampage. i know it sounds like im defending him but you have to understand he probably suffered a lot of mental illness just as a lot of us have on this site. i am in no way trying to say his actions were appropriate for the situation but still these people are very ill. But i know what you mean i really wish as an individual we could do more. I just feel so bad that none of those parents can even hug their kids anymore. especially near the holidays. We will just have to pray to God for help with these things and keep those parents and kids in our prayers, and pray for the man who shot them so he can get the proper help he needs to get better and forgiveness for his sins and for doing that. we will just have to keep close on this community like a family, like The Lone Gunman said (the user on this site not the other guy) - group hug, and God Bless

 

[dottie]

 

[Steppen-Wolf]

I apologise if I may sound disrespectful or even offensive, but I'm a rather "cold logic" inclined person and I feel the need to comment.

There's nothing "wrong" with the world, we actually live in (by far) the most peaceful and prosperous period in human history. But we also have a media that has the ability to show (and twist) tragic events like never before, hoping to produce an emotional reaction and get more viewers.

Is the death of all those innocent people tragic?, very much so, but many, many more innocent people die horrible deaths every single day. And yet the world keeps on turning, people keep loving each other, millions of children keep growing happy and safe and so on.

The concepts of "good" and "evil" are purely human and have a symbiotic relationship, one cannot exist without the other. The same way we can feel that everything is right with the world when we're witness to a story of courage, love and compassion, some may feel that everything is wrong with the world when facing senseless tragedy.

Yet those are nothing but subjective emotional reactions. The world isn't a worse or a better place after that event, but your perception may be different.

Anyway, I once again apologise if I've offended anyone. I understand that each person is different and each has a right to deal with life and the world in their own unique way, I just wanted to share my point of view.

 

[soandi]

I don't either mean to be disrespectful, but I mostly agree with Steppen-Wolf.

We can't ever understand this king of thinks, but I think bad things just happens sometimes. I think we can not blame the society for this. The World is never been perfect and will never be. That is fact we just have to accept. Of course there are good thinks people can do to try make it better.

 

[Lowlight]

The whole shock around these types of shootings is that they are unexpected.

We in this nation see the people in Syria embroiled in a civil war, but that is to be expected of some Middle Eastern country, right? In Chicago there are multiple shootings every night, but that is to be expected from a bunch of gang banging punks, right? We see children starving in Africa, but that is to be expected of a bunch of people who are living in an non industrialized nation, right? These things are terrible, but people can sleep at night because “it is just the way the world works”. Often these horrible things happen outside of our communities, which can lead us to believe that we are immune to tragedy.

Then there are events like this shooting that strike people as coming out of nowhere. In this country we expect that our children will not be in the line of fire when they are sitting in their elementary school classrooms. The truth of the matter is that no one is safe from danger and people who are off balance. Living in a free society has the awful cost that there will be people who abuse and betray the communal good.

What we can do is be ever vigilant of scenarios like these playing out. We can’t allow ourselves to become complacent simply because we feel it “couldn’t happen here”. More importantly though, we must rally around those we love and those who are struck by such tragedies. We must live everyday being grateful for the lives we have, even if we don’t always feel our lives are that great.

Everyone stay safe and mindful.

 

[Opaline]

That is a great reaction to have to terrible events. I'll keep that quote in mind.

 

[ImNotMyIllness]

It is too sick to fathom! I will never be able to understand something like that! Taking other people's lives is inexcusable. What a Monster!