2:56 a.m. - 2007-04-17
Apathetic Feelings
Sometimes I really freak myself out with how numb Ive become about news events. It’s not that Im uninterested or out of touch like the blissfully ignorant mall zombie people who cant take their eyes off of American Idol long enough to find out who the current president is. It just seems like after 911 and the war that Ive become strangely desensitized and every morning when I turn on the news if Iran isn’t dropping nukes or a comet isn’t 48 hours from impact that there’s nothing really going on. The reason this has come to my attention today is that when I woke up this morning and turned on the news to find out that the worst shooting massacre in U.S. history just happened at Virginia Tech I just saw it as typical. I find myself wondering if my apathetic feelings towards today’s tragic events are just a result of me watching too much news or are these types of things just getting worse and more frequent? I remember how shocking it was to me when Columbine happened and I really want and should feel the same kind of intense feelings about this situation but for some reason I just don’t. Its troubleing.
