Between the Very Sad News of actor Paul Walker's fatal car crash yesterday afternoon in Santa Clarita, CA, the derailing of a commuter train outside of NYC earlier this morning, killing at least 4 people (at the time of this post), with 67 injured passengers; the disgusting way in which Americans trampled, slammed, slapped, shot and Literally Beat-Up Other Shoppers and a Security Guard or two at the Infamous Low-End shopping places during Friday's Crazed, Insane Black Friday Madness; the Police Helicopter inadvertently falling into the middle of a Scottish Pub the other night, killing 8 people, I just want to rewind back to earlier last week when the Worse News involved the Mass Slaughter Of Turkeys.
But no. The Fickle Trickster of Close-To-The-Holiday Disasters has been very, very active and is chortling along with Satan somewhere Down There as we, Up Here on Floor #9 of Partial Hell – aka The Earth As We Now Know It – shake our beleaguered heads and hearts over the loss of Innocent Victims just going about their travels/business. In Other Words from many a Pragmatist's Mouth, it's the indifferent attitude of "That's Life. Deal with it!"
Well no, some of us won't "Just deal with it" and happily move along our own smooth or bumpy roads. How can we if we want to remain aware of what is going on around us in The World – be it international news from Scotland or NYC and stay in touch with the part of us that still have Emotions? And when a Celebrity of any sort is lost to untimely tragedy, the Collective Pain adds to our already Weary-Jaded Brains…simply because we were exposed to the person via their Public Craft, feeling as if we knew them unlike those we have never seen or heard of whose lives were just as important.
Perhaps the Best Way to write of the sad news that is piling-up daily like a kid on meth playing with Legos is to simply be kind, compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic, along with Extremely Judgmental about the Truly Unnecessary Deaths surrounding Shopping Craziness. Otherwise, by shrugging-off the "Negative" stories we'll become utterly inured to more of these Death Dominoes Falling in the future, which is inevitable. Not that those of us who are not part of any of the families who lost their Loved Ones need to fall into a heap and curl into a "I Can't Take It Anymore" physical and mental-emotional position.
But, it's okay to feel sadness over the "Bad News" hitting many of us in the face today as we unfold our newspapers or click on our Online News Sources to view the images of a darling actor who is no longer with us, and the spectacle of derailed train cars spread-out on a hillside.
After all, we're Human, aren't we? As in, we have Feelings?
And, contrarily in a way, it's also Not Wrong to remain Healthily Detached from Over-Dramatizing unfortunate events over which none of us have any control.
Not much else can be said or written at the moment regarding all of the above beyond a sincere R.I.P. to ALL of the casualties of this Horrific High Profile Death Cycle.
Until tomorrow, I bid you a happier day than what we have experienced thus far.
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LOVE THIS!!!
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