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Anonymous asked: Although I admire your confidence and ability to stand up for what you believe in, I do not always agree with your opinions,. However, what you posted about the recent passing of a young girl in our county was completely parallel to my own feelings, which, up until reading your post, I could not rationalize while still being respectful. Thank-you. you’re welcome, and thank you, dear reader :) |
So a girl in the area in which I live just recently died. It’s a terrible, awful tragedy, which demands all the sympathy and sensitivity one can offer. However, I’m not completely sure the taken reaction of the masses is appropriate. There’s a lot of tweeting, facebooking, etc…and that’s fine. It’s just that, a lot of it comes from people who never even met the girl.
A bit ago, my young friend whom I loved very much died in a crash. What seemed like instantly after, another girl I knew, a friend, died in a crash—she was also very young. In both cases, there was a similar influx from all these kids who had never heard of them before. Their close friends and family were all getting thousands of friend requests and writing on their walls things like “I didn’t know her and I don’t know you but…” I suppose it’s fine to offer support to a stranger, but there is a gnawing feeling that some of these people are just drawn to tragedy-drawn to mass feeling.
At what point does it become insincere, or rather, at what point does it cross some sort of line?
