Sad

I have just witnessed a very mean horrible thing. I can't really believe it. I must have missed something. Suddenly it is done.

How is it that human beings have this huge capacity to be so horribly hateful at times? Where does it come from? I can't rationalize it. I can't figure it out. For all the money in the world, it really does escape me.

Maybe for the past year or so I've been off and on keeping up with this guy who had a blog. At first it was a journal type entry but not on blogger. Then he switched over to blogger. His main theme was often about his daughter. At times it was just his take on the world. I don't know him. Never met him. I'm not an avid follower/reader. Certainly didn't read every day but enough to kind of keep up from time to time. It seems that he hit a few hot button issues and was basically gang attacked on the Internet (if you can believe that) by this certain group of people. Now I will say that I did not always agree with what he said. There were a couple of times where I swore him off; what he said really got me going (not in a positive way). But I always got over myself because 1) it's his life and who am I to say how he should live it and 2) I don't even really KNOW him! This is the Internet and it does give you a false sense of knowing folks or thinking you do. I had never even so much as had an email conversation with him so I finally realized that I more enjoyed reading his entries when I had time to check in than ban him from my reading....

In this life you will not always agree with everyone. You can't even agree with your own spouse 100% of the time and that should be easier than anything. But tempers can run high, passion is always part of the equation and you are more honest with your significant other than anyone else on the planet so naturally, meaner things will be said between you (sadly but realistically, they will). Who are we as humans to think we can be so mean and so hateful, that we are ALLOWED to be so mean and hateful and have fun (obvious fun) while doing it? They actually threatened his daughter. And because he had previously (in many posts cumulatively) had divulged where he lived, for someone who so desired, they could easily make such a horriblel thing really happen. Threaten a little girl because they didn't like what her daddy did or said on a blog? Are you KIDDING me? So BAM. He turned off his entire blog. Not worth risking his daughters' safety which he dearly cares about and also, tired of hearing the crap from the awful group of people.

And now here I am devoting all this time talking about it; talking about someone I don't even know. But let me tell you, that is what makes this world go round. If I could talk to him, I would tell him that I think he did the right thing in the end and that I'm sorry people like that lashed out at him. And his little girl. I have a son that age. I know what it's like to be a very overprotective parent and do whatever to whomever it takes to ensure nothing happens to them. I get it. I totally get it. It's called kindness. You reach out to who you can even in little ways. You just do. God watches us. He knows. And when it's time to stand in front of him, you have to answer for what you have done. You will have to answer for your behavior. I truly believe that. Not only does that drive me, but I want to do kind things for others. It's a feeling that simply multiplies itself and upon itself. I'm not a perfect goody goody. No way. Not at all. But if one good deed precipitates another and then another, it sort of turns into who you are. You become that. These people, they are cruel and seemingly evil. It seems that is what drives them. What's sadder is that it's driven him right off his platform.

What is this world coming to? This I want to know....


Jenn