We all do have an Alice in our lives... we also chase rabbits. Allowed ourselves to be dropped in that rabbit hole, find ourselves in a room with many doors only to find out that we have set for on another pathless struggle to find the clues to our questions.
I'm tired and sick. Patience. Patience. Patience. Coz i dont want to become that Virginia Tech gunman who went for a shooting spree claiming innocent lives. But are the victims really that innocent too? Were they killed in random, were they happened to be just standing in the wrong classroom when the fanciful shooting occured? And history pages of American textbooks would imprint that eventful day. I could just imagine that what if it was a Filipino? Our nurses would be condemend, no more Filipino teachers in the US, Filipino students under the eye of their schoolmates.
I have violent thoughts, but they are just thougts and some slipped into written words, but more than that, I don't think I can afford. Cho came to America in 1992 and was raised in Washington D.C., and in a world where descrimation rules and angst as a refuge for insecurities, Cho becomes a victim of a hypocrite world. Of an avenging and selfless society. If he's parents did not migrate to America, perhaps Cho would have grown up to be a fun-loving child. Not the loner and psychotic guy as how NBC broadcasted it. He too must have an Alice in him. Too bad he slipped so fast.
But I am again entertaining morbid thoughts. Nah! I'm singing, i'm singing.. not shouting, in my head. I'd die worrying perhaps.
I'm tired and sick. Patience. Patience. Patience. Coz i dont want to become that Virginia Tech gunman who went for a shooting spree claiming innocent lives. But are the victims really that innocent too? Were they killed in random, were they happened to be just standing in the wrong classroom when the fanciful shooting occured? And history pages of American textbooks would imprint that eventful day. I could just imagine that what if it was a Filipino? Our nurses would be condemend, no more Filipino teachers in the US, Filipino students under the eye of their schoolmates.
I have violent thoughts, but they are just thougts and some slipped into written words, but more than that, I don't think I can afford. Cho came to America in 1992 and was raised in Washington D.C., and in a world where descrimation rules and angst as a refuge for insecurities, Cho becomes a victim of a hypocrite world. Of an avenging and selfless society. If he's parents did not migrate to America, perhaps Cho would have grown up to be a fun-loving child. Not the loner and psychotic guy as how NBC broadcasted it. He too must have an Alice in him. Too bad he slipped so fast.
But I am again entertaining morbid thoughts. Nah! I'm singing, i'm singing.. not shouting, in my head. I'd die worrying perhaps.
1 comment:
you are right jac, that move of cho's family to the US when he was only 8 could perhaps be the biggest mistake in all that is happening. i am pretty sure the environment in the US against foreigners contributed to pushing him off to the edge of his tolerance, adding to his already troubled personality.
but still, even if his victims were innocent themselves or not, they didn't deserve to go down with this guy.
in the end, it's really him to blame because he was the one who pulled the trigger. but it's also america's fault, and the school's. and those who have molded him into a gunman. and those who could have helped him and were not able to...the scary thing now is that he praised the two killers in the columbine shooting... who will go after him?
this is one problem america must address as much as they do iraq. it's happening in their very own turf after all...
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