What's wrong with you? He's just a kid. We're all just kids and we just have this life and the things you say and do, we feel that. How can you have so much hate in your heart? How can you act like it doesn't matter? It does matter. What happened to us? We're just kids. We can't be like this. It's not possible."*
Watching Last Sunday's One Tree Hill (Episode "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept") was really mind blowing. In a nutshell, that particular episode was about one of the high school student (Jimmy Edwards) brought a gun to school, and held a group of students hostage after firing a shot in the school. Click HERE for more info about this episode
"Jimmy Edwards:
You really think I am the only one. Then ask yourself this. Have you ever treated someone like crap in this school or left anyone out? Have you ever broken up with someone in the time it takes to pass a note and disappear? Or talk trash behind their back? Or maybe you just ignored it all? You know why you worry about the big game or the prom or the bake sale for the pep club. You ask yourself that and then you tell me if there is anyone else out there. "*
This seem to look a lot like the Columbine High School shooting that happened a couple of years back. I guess this is the retribution you get when not only kids wear casual clothings to school, but guns are easily obtained from the nearest K-Mart.
But then again, to blame guns outbreaks like this is no different from blaming knives for murders. Things around us can either be used for good or evil.
Maybe those kids were like Jimmy - the rejected and the bully. The invisible to the people around him, and abondan by his friends. And they decided to take out their frustration by pulling the trigger.
How many people like Jimmy do you know? I know, there are too many around me.
"Jimmy Edwards:
Everyone here is a loser. And the truth is: everyday I have to come to this school, is one less day I have to come back."*
One thing i know, he's just tired of the things that has been going on around him. I know.
"...But who knew that this day wasn't like the rest
Instead of taking a test, I took two to the chest
Call me blind, but I didn't see it coming
Everybody was running but I couldn't hear nothing
Except gun blasts, it happened so fast
I don't really know this kid even though I sit by him in class
Maybe this kid was reaching out for love
Or maybe for a moment he forgot who he was
Or maybe this kid just wanted to be hugged
Whatever it was I know it's because
We are, we are, the youth of the nation..."
Taken from POD's Youth of the Nation
* the quotes were taken from One Tree Hill, episode "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept".
Love & Peace!~
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1 comment:
that was one disturbing episode (unlike other episodes this one had a disclaimer)..
that is one side of what happens when people are too stressed out and couldn't take life around them.
i have to say it doesn't really matter cause it's only high school and all that problems should help you deal with more difficult issues in colleges and later in working life....
seriously Keith getting shot could it be a turning point to Lucas's life (i know what's going to happen but i shall let it be with me until the time has come)
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