Learned today that 20 odd kids and 7 adults have been shot in a school in Connecticut.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims. But a part of me is also leaning towards the human being who committed this unimaginable act. What promoted his mental state in such a dark corner that all he felt was a rage towards these little souls, a rage that cannot be reasoned with, a rage that cannot be pacified, a rage that is so frightful that it erodes away any last shed of humanity left in the person.
I will be closely following the case of the man and try to get into his mind. The mind of a killer. I will not be surprised to find out if he was sick, felt rejected, felt alone, considered his life to be of little consequence or meaning and hence in the process was jealous of all those who seem happy and contented in contrast to his own life. But there has to be more.
And as I have followed previous cases viz. the Columbine, Virginia Tech, the Aurora and Oak Creek,, the abridgment of my findings and thought is shaping up to be around the nature of our society today. All these tragedies and the individuals involved in culminating them are all but symptoms of the way our society is today. If their little problems that can be solved by society that includes family, friends and just well wishers compound into personality disorders, chronic insecurity and what not. Society; a lonesome, unforgiving, intolerant, panicky, angry and discontent entity which we all comprise of and hence are molded out of.
