{"id":41956,"date":"2015-11-14T22:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T02:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=41956"},"modified":"2020-07-17T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T02:46:59","slug":"the-world-is-an-awful-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=41956","title":{"rendered":"The world is an awful place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t you just hate it when something really terrible happens, and aside from the obvious agony, empathy and grief from all those vested, it feels like you can\u2019t really post anything to the internet without feeling like an insensitive asshole?\u00a0 It\u2019s like I want to try and inevitably post things that amuse me, or might amuse others, but you just know everything will fall on deaf ears because something major and tragic has occurred, and nobody\u2019s paying attention to anything but that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sounds trite sure, but it\u2019s still one of the things that swirls around in my head at times like this.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t mean that the actual recent events are no less important.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s absolutely tragic and horrific to hear about the terrorist attack in Paris.\u00a0 It got me thinking about how it seems like there\u2019s a very sophomoric logic behind the dates in which these massive incidents occur, like how September 11th<\/sup>\u00a0was supposedly planned because Americans dial 9-11 in an emergency, and how to some degree, it shouldn\u2019t feel like that much of a surprise that a cowardly assault on the people of Paris occurred on Friday the 13th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know where to direct my disappointment when it comes to stories like this; it\u2019s easy to point fingers at the Middle East as a whole, but that\u2019s logically irresponsible, because extremists are called such for a reason, although it certainly can\u2019t apply to everyone solely based on similar nationalities.\u00a0 Then there\u2019s a part of me that condemns the concept of religion, because so much of these terrible things seem to always happen in the name of religion, and how it\u2019s subsequently sad that people, at the basest level, simply can\u2019t mind their own fucking business and accept that there are people who think differently, and the answer is not to kill them, but to leave them be perhaps.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not lost on me is the fact that I was in Paris two weeks prior to these events, and as someone who looked at his share of maps of Paris, planning out places to see and restaurants to dine at, and trying to study the Metro lines, it is most certainly frightening to see on a map where these attacks were launched.\u00a0 Where my girlfriend and I ate falafels and crepes on our last night in Paris, was merely three blocks away from where several gunmen open fire at the attendance of a rock concert, killing 87 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that we narrowly escaped a very bad situation, since it was two weeks and not two days, but it does put into perspective how when I was there, I was feeling pleasant and in love and enjoying my time, eating food, and thinking nothing bad could happen, and then hearing stories about how a bunch of fucking terrorists went about their usual tactic of surprising civilians with deadly weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, it just makes me feel like the world is just a terrible place.\u00a0 If it\u2019s not people ruining the lives of other people in the name of religion, it\u2019s people ruining the lives of other people in the name of money and greed, and if not that, people are just ruining lives for some other stupid reason.\u00a0 It makes me want to close up my own walls and shut everyone out, because sometimes the incessant chatter of everyone around is too conflicting, too overwhelming, and too starved for attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s times like this when I just want to hide out and wait for everything to calm down again, so I can try and enjoy my own little unsubstantial life in relative peace and hope I\u2019m not stepping on too many toes in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

I most certainly feel bad for Paris, but I also feel bad for the rest of the world, because there are some truly horrible people out there, and they\u2019re always going to be doing horrible things like this, no matter how much we wish they wouldn\u2019t, and it makes the world an awful place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t you just hate it when something really terrible happens, and aside from the obvious agony, empathy and grief from all those vested, it feels like you can\u2019t really post anything to the internet without feeling like an insensitive asshole?\u00a0 It\u2019s like I want to try and inevitably post things that amuse me, or might … Continue reading The world is an awful place<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,68],"class_list":["post-41956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41957,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41956\/revisions\/41957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}