Immunity to Tragedy

I must change the channel. I hate news broadcasts. All I have to say is "Virgina Tech" and my head is instantly filled with pictures of police cars, flashing lights, yellow tape and a soundtrack of gun shots to accompany a shakey cell phone video. Two days ago, my same little brain carried thoughts of a magnificent campus with amazing architecture and beautiful lawns with just the perfect number of students placed perfectly but randomly across the yard. Damn the news.

Some kind of "grief management" dude was being interviewed on the Today Show. He stated "No one is immune to tragedy". Sure did make a lot of sense to me. So now, in addition to putting sweet girl behind the wheel of a car on the big, open road...I get to pay to send her to a possible shooting range, if I watch the news.

I have always tried to not waste effort trying to understand the incomprehensible. I don't want to know what this crazy shooter was thinking. Understanding won't be necessary.