Sic infit...

I have been asked by many friends over the last few months to start a blog but due to my own personal desire to be as lazy as possible, I've found numerous different excuses not to do it. However, in light of certain recent events in my life, i think it was time i started.

So to begin let me just say, this blog for me is just a place for me to share my views and my opinions on things that pop randomly into my head. There will be places for serious issues, funny issues, heart breaking issues etc...

Comments from readers are always welcomed but i do have a request to make. You are more then welcome to disagree with what i say but please do it in a dignified way. This is my space to air MY views. You do not have to agree with me on anything but i ask for respect towards what i have to say. So please disagree with what i have to say, challenge what i have to say but do it to my views and not to me as a human being.

Okay! got that out of the way. Lets move on to something a little more current. i guess for anyone who has been keeping up with the news in the last 2-3 days, the one thing that's been on every one's lips has been the tragedy in the USA at Virginia Tech Uni. My heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the families of the victims and to all the families of those wounded in the shooting, my prayers are with you.

I've been trying to fathom in the last few days the tragedy and sadness that one person can bring to so many. I understand the pain of the family of the shooter but no matter how hard i try, i cannot bring myself to accept or even understand the situations that push him to those actions. Simply, there is no justification in my mind for these acts of violence. Senseless violence.

Today i picked up the papers on my way into uni and saw photos of the shooter wielding different weapons taken from a video he sent to NBC , explaining his actions.
He claims he was trying to prove a point, to make a statement to the nature and the state of the world as he knew it. I don't know. to me, his actions shows that he is no different from the things he claims to hate. I know there will be people reading this that will question how i can think this way but i am sorry, i cannot bring myself to feel any sympathy for someone who admires the actions of the Columbine shooters.

I think enough young and innocent blood has been spilled in our schools. Isn't it time we learn to really listen and hear what each one of us has to say. The saddest thing of this whole situation isn't the lost potential of everyone of the victims but rather the fact that the parents of those lost will have to bury their children. Once again, my prayers and heart felt condolences go out to each and everyone of you.