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Dumpling Sister's Thoughts
4.22.2007 Sorrow (Chinese Version)
Ten 'o clock
at night tonight, I was in the middle of my Detective Conan
episodes where Conan was solving the difficult cases. I was
in the world of Conan when Winter Melon mom got online and
sent me a message. She told me that there was a shooing at
NASA today and that the news has been all over it today. She
said it seemed there was some kind of conflict that resulted
in the gun shooting with 2 deaths and one injure. Therefore
the TV has been broadcasting about this. Winter melon dad
made the comment that nowadays who would dare to make an
argument when that could result in a gun shot? Everyone
would be scared to be "the one".
Silent, we both were.
These past few days I have been reading the reports on Cho,
how he came to US in 1992 and how a loner he was at school.
He was being mocked at in middle school when kids told him
to go back to China when he was from Korea. Since then he
had been a quiet student in class and didn't make contact
with anyone. When the teacher asked he to speak up, he
sometimes would answer with a monotonic voice. In the plays
that he wrote for class there were elements of violence and
anger in a disturbing manner. From the readings I saw how a
person became the way he was.
Was this avoidable?
I think his parents moved to US for his education and his
future, just like many others. However, at the end, their
son had become famous for the reason of being a murderer.
How does karma explain all this?
Eventually the television stations had ceased to air his
tape for its disturbing scenes, but how can one forget his
posture, the way he held the hammer? Someone made the
argument that the way Cho held the hammer was similar to a
Korean film that has won awards. The posture explained the
anger, hatred, violence, and being on the edge.
I was thinking how most of the news pieces I read emphasized
that this was the most deadly killing in the modern US
history. Well, if someone, for the wrong reason, wanted to
be famous, then all this person needed to do was to commit a
killing with number exceeding 33.
Winter melon mom said that in light of the recent news, she
felt that this society has promoted for more violent
confrontation and that killing seems not to be as a serious
matter as it would have been, and should have been. She was
very shocked. It seemed that anyone can do it.
Seeing the humanity being as such, how can one see past
this, I committed with grief.
A long time ago I have read an article that was a letter
from the victim's family to the killer. They had made the
decision to forgive the killer, not that they weren't angry,
but they had realized that only forgiveness could resolve
anger. They chose to forgive him because they didn't wish to
add more anger what an already angry society. They were sad
for their loss, but they had to take an action.
I could only imagine the strength that would take for this
decision to come forward.
The advancement of the technology allows the media report to
prompt or even provoke anger at all corners of the world
One shooting news after another, in front of the silent key
strokes, how many burdened souls.
Even though we all wish for that feather of hope does not
fall, and wish not bear that pain when it falls.
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