I Have No Words…

\What a strange, scary world that we are living in.  I could say, “Back when I was young, we didn’t have all of these problems, this hate, these senseless killings, the disparaging feuding between political parties.”  But, in all actuality, there’s been hate and discord since the beginning of time.

But as an adult, as a parent and a grandparent, you lose the rose colored glasses and life is just glaring and magnified and I want to close my eyes and be a kid again and hide under the covers until my Dad comes in my bedroom, looks under my bed and declares that there are no monsters lurking underneath. 

But monsters do exist – everywhere – in all shapes, sizes, genders, races, and political leanings.  There is no right or wrong grouping of people – they can be anyone. People used to jump in and help someone in distress but now?  Now, crowds swarm and attack people on the streets and on public transportation.  They carry out brazen, armed robberies.  Left and right political parties call each other out in social media, news, and in protests.  School shootings – oh, dear Lord – the horrible, horrible school shootings.  Why can’t we have metal detectors installed in every.single.school? 

There’s a mental health crisis.  There’s a problem with the movies, TV shows, and video games being produced and shown – to young and old alike.  Except, when the average person mimics the actions of what’s being shown in theaters and homes, the person who’s been shot doesn’t jump back up after a director yells, “Cut!”

Why can’t we just have difference of opinions without yelling, protesting, killing?

I have no words… I. HAVE. NO. WORDS.  But I do have compassion and love  (thanks Mom for nurturing me to have that).  We all need to dig deep and push aside the hate and the “it’s my way or the highway” thought process.  We need to go back to the basics of caring, helping, not turning our heads or running away when a young girl is being murdered across the aisle from us. Not killing someone because their beliefs don’t align with ours. 

Again, I have no words for what’s going on in our world – but I can still grasp onto just a sliver, a glimmer of hope that someday, and I pray that the day is just around the corner, that we can all get along.