I got a call from my dad telling me to turn on the TV because there has been shooting at one of the Illinois's universities. Not really believing i turned it on to find that there has been a shooting at Northern Illinois and no one knew at the moment how many were hurt, but it was known that some were already dead. The first thought that came to my mind is to call my friends that go there. I tried to reach my friend several times and i got through. I was one of the only people that could reach him. He was 2 feet away from Cole Hall so after the campus was secure he rushed outside to help the injured. He pretended to be a reporter and somehow he got in. He was calm on the phone, but i could hear that he was horrified and really still in shock. He asked me to call him mom because he couldn't reach her. So i did. I obviously had to start the conversation somewhat nice and calm, knowing that if i don't she'll be yelling screaming and all. So i told her that my friend is fine, he is safe and all, so then i told her what happened and as i predicted she didn't know about it. She almost started crying, she was petrified and scared but i tried my best of calming her down.
But what i really wanted to say that i can not believe that this has happened to us, i mean a place so close, a place that a lot of people that we know go to, it happened in Illinois, our state. When Virginia Tech happened it was horrible but it was so far away and it felt so distant although we all prayed and gave out our heart to the lost lives and injured. But now, when it happened so close it is so different. It makes you think that what if i come to school the next day and somebody would pull out a gun and start randomly shooting? What if somebody just decides to blow up our school? Or not even a school, a store, a library, anything. It just makes you so scared that at some point you don't want to go anywhere. But together people are able to get through hard times, together there is more power in their hands...
If you look at it on the other hand, you can't prevent it. You really can't do anything except being cautious and careful.
I say live your life like it's your last day and get a full taste out of it, because no one knows what might happen tomorrow!
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As Americans we love to think that we are in control of our own destiny. We don't like the idea of fate and that's part of what this issue comes from. We are not so okay with saying that sometimes bad things happen and that's just how life works. We want to control everything.
Yup. Thats very true
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