I am sure most of you have heard a little something about the killings at Virginia tech by this kid by the name of Cho. I have scoured the internet looking for more information on this kid, and it makes me sad. Not him, but the way he was treated growing up.
He was picked on constantly in middle school, highschool, and college for being different, for talking with an accent, for not speaking very good english, and for not being American. Growing up in DC as a foreign kid is a hard enough, but it makes it even harder to be picked on everyday for being different.
Whether it is for being fat, wearing glasses, talking funny, being shy, having pimples, being tall, being made fun of for no other reason than making good grades, having a mentally ill sibling, or being foreign.....it all makes me sick to my stomach......people that put down others just to make themselves feel like a bigger person are the scum of the earth. People are not stepping stones for your personal amusement or your inside joke. We are not here to make you feel better about yourself by putting us down. Love me, and I will love you no matter who you are, what you look like, what you believe in or dont believe in, where you are from...it doesnt matter. Love me or hate me, I will still love you and give you my kidney if you need it. (I am AB+ if you need one or know anyone that does)
Im not defending what he did, but I do feel his pain. I really do and it makes me hurt and hate humanity for being so cruel to push someone to that point and push him to that point.
What is so fucking hard about being nice to someone just because you want to be nice...not because you want something out of it, but to make a new friend, to make a new associate, to learn something fucking new.
And whatever happened to "if you don't have anything nice to say, keep your damn mouth shut"?
Cho said in one of his letters that he is going to be a martyr. I hope that he is. I hope to God, Allah, Moses, Flying Spaghetti monster, Chuck the "you can do better" beaver, Buddha, Ja, and Jesus ass ramming Christ that the government and school board takes notice of this and actually does something. Each and every year in schools there is more and more pointless violence, specifically pointed towards those that are "outcasts" or shy or different. Beefing up security is not the answer, we need to teach people to be treat others how they wish to be treated.....as a friend.
Love everyone the way you wish to be loved.
We are all a dork, fat, tall, wear glasses, idiots, geniuses, are shy and different in our own ways. Do we not all have eyes? Do we not have hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Are we not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as the rest? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? Murder and insults are not equal and I realize that, but everyone has their breaking point. Everyone.
One love.
Im not defending Cho for what he did. Murder and violence is rarely the answer. But in this case, I really hope that it was the answer and I hope that finally something will change. I doubt it though.
I feel worse for Cho than for the people he murdered.