No one deserves a tragedy....

As I sit to write this blog, it is exactly 48 hours since the Virginia Tech University Tragedy . I look outside my residence window, I can see the sun rise. I can also see some students walking back to their dorm rooms after late night outs in the library. Its like any routine day of university for us.

I am sure that is exactly what every student who went to Virginia Tech felt that on the ill fated morning of Monday. What is usually the worst day of the week for most people turned out to be the worst day in US History as the worst case of shoot out ever. With 33 people dying in a matter of a few minutes, it is almost mind numbing to imagine what must be going on the minds of those who lived, to see their loved ones die.

My deepest condolences to the families and friends. I pray to the Lord to give them strength to face this grave moment.

I can't help but think, what wrong did those students do that they were punished like this? No one deserves a tragedy like this, for no fault of theirs.. its just sad...

It is even more saddening to find out the cause of the massacre, a psycho-neurotic freak who was so so so indulged in himself and in the world he built around himself that he never thought of living in the worlds that the others built. I wonder now, maybe if people had made an extra attempt to get to know that guy ? or take his silly messages a bit seriously ?

Is there where the world is heading too? Has it become such a dangerous place that we can't even sleep in our dorm rooms in peace? Are we supposed to suspect every one who doesn't talk to people? It is depressing to know that we as the next generation, have to stay in such a world and ensure that its atrocities don't come and affect our next generation..a tough task in hands. Where is the love today ? What happened to the days when people used to sit and talk and sort out problems ? Has that love disintegrated to cheap lust which gets fulfilled as you watch a porn movie ?! Where is the love ? The lines from the Black Eyed Peas song come to my mind:

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm getting older y'all people get colder
Most of us only care about money makin
Selfishness got us followin the wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting their young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what the see in the cinema
Whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality
Instead of spreading love, we're spreading anomosity
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down
It's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under
I gotta keep my faith alive, until love is found

People killing people dying
Children hurtin you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
Where is the love?(fade)


Amidst all this grief and sorrow caused by this incident, there is always a hero, and in this case, it has to be Prof. Liviu Librescu, a professor of Engineering and a member for the Faculty for 20 years. This Holocaust survivor who escaped from the Nazi Killings in Communist Romania became a hero as he protected his students from the mad gun man, by blocking the door and asking the students to jump out of the window which was in the 2nd floor. By doing so, he saved all the 54 students of his class, but in the end got shot saving the lives of so many.

That is the spirit of human beings, a spirit which no psychopath , no mad man, no gun man can kill.

To conclude, here is what the award winning Tennessee poet and Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni had to say at the memorial ceremony at the University on Monday:

'We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech.

'We are strong enough to know when to cry and sad enough to know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech.

'We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did not deserve it but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized.

'No one deserves a tragedy...'