*BUMP*
I wanted to finally start my own thread, but I thought just a bit more posting and rummaging through threads will do me some good in the meantime as I gather my thoughts.
So I am reviving this thread because of an incident that happened the first week I got my new laptop.
I was surfing around video websites that are known for funny and outrageous vids. So, while trying to find something that would eventually make me cringe for weeks afterwards, I went about clicking on almost any link that would send me into an uproarious laughter. What I can sparsely remember about the link's desciption was about a woman and apparent cuteness, but too bad she won't be cute for long.
"Okay", I thought, "This girl is about to get hit with an orange to the face, or she might trip over herself running after a guy who perturbed her while she was peacefully sitting in her wooden chair." What would follow, as the video started, was the girl from the description sitting―and crying.
Thinking to myself, "Why in the world is this girl crying?" two men abruptly appear on screen, quickly stifling her desperate pleas, and finally, 'BANG' 'CRASH'!
...She was shot in the face at point-blank range, the result of which ended with a sickening splatter of blood spewing from her lifeless body, as it was propelled backwards from the awesome force of the gunfire.
Fade to Black.
That was the final scene of that horrid video; a video that could not have been longer than 20 seconds, nor more despicable.
I found it whilst just trying to put a giggle in my system, but instead, I was subject to a cold-blooded murder over the internet. I will never be able to shake this memory from my mind, but I pray that I somewhat gained a pessimistic understanding that the world is not the one I know.
It is the one in this video, perhaps 100x worse in its graphic nature and heartless torture; the world is a cruel place; there is no changing that. But what can serve a greater purpose is striving to negate that inargueable truth by supplanting goodness in every action that we do.
I try, and sometimes falter, but I will commit to my effort to correct such atrocities that I and others have seen throughout our lifetimes by reaffirming that humankind is a gift.
An institution of man, only supported by the knowledge that it serves to protect and preserve man.
A community among all.