I had a very interesting week of
classes, lots happened in such little time.
What I found most interesting this week was our class on Monday and what
happened towards the end of the class period.
This shooting that occurred down the street from Rollins forced the
entire campus into a lock down.
Throughout my lockdown I got to thinking about the shooting itself, and
how many of them occur in our country today.
It made me think of the quote “everything is absurd, but nothing is
shocking” –Jean Jacques Rousseau and how that relates to the world around us
today. Absurd events happen around us every
day, but since they happen every day they seem normal. This quote gave me the ability to want to take
a step back and look at our world from an outsider’s perspective. We now live in a world where something as
absurd as this has become a monthly news story.
Both cities where have I spent my whole life, Orlando and Boston both
have been victims to terrorist attacks in the past couple years. It is everywhere around us, we don’t live in
a safe world anymore, at least that is how it seems. It only makes me think about what kind of world
the next generation will be growing up in.
My parents would always tell me
that they grew up in a simpler time. That
just makes me think about if I will be telling my kids that one day? If so, how
much more absurd could the world get for me to justify using that phrase. I know it will happen, every day I wake up to
another story that I could not ever imagine the day before that. But when I go to bed later that night, I am
not shocked about the absurd world we live in right now.
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