As I sit here this morning, getting ready for work, watching the news- I feel sick to my stomach. Tears are pouring down my face. Goosebumps. I had other plans for the blog today...but nothing seems right.
There are no words to express my feelings for what happened in Boston yesterday. No words to truly express the horror I feel; the shock that this has happened to our country...again. Speechless.
And as horrible as everything is- stories of those who ran towards the explosions in order to help people who were injured...well those are the stores that are helping pull me through. Restoring my faith in humanity just a little.
The status Patton Oswalt (a fabulous comedian) put on Facebook yesterday is being reposted by a number of people on my newsfeed...and I think he sums it up better than I can.
Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."
But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will.
