Remember when we used to say "High School is murder"?

Well these days it really is.

Every day I look at my local news and there is story after story like the one I'm linking below.

What a terrible tragedy!!!!

Of course what's even more tragic is that my first thought was "At least it wasn't a shooting".

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2018/09/12/fitzgerald-high-school-warren-stabbing/1277463002/

It's closing in on 40 years since I first walked the halls of what I considered my first "real" school.
High School - Ahhh the memories. Fortunately those 40 years have softened most of the memories from what appeared at the time to be absolute hell every single day.

I wasn't even an outcast in high school. Although not a jock myself I got along fine with that clique. Never really had a problem getting a girlfriend. Was accepted by the goths and druggies even though I was classed as a nerd. I mingled with the low and elite and yet at the time still considered it the worst time of my life during those days.

As I said, 40 years has softened the memories of what I experienced back then as I am sure it has done for most of us.

Do you know the one thing I don't remember having to worry about?

Fear for my life!!!

I mean c'mon what the hell is going on with the world these days. Metal detectors in schools, armed personnel, RFID tracking??? I am talking about school here, right? Or did I switch topics to the prison system?

I have no explanation for why it occurs, I'm not even going to delve into that realm. I wanted to make this post for my sake more than anyone else's.

I was actually ashamed, disgusted and felt guilty all at the same time that my first thought was that it was ONLY a stabbing and not yet ANOTHER gun incident. How jaded have I (we all) become when that is my first reaction to this kind of news. A girl tragically died, over a dispute about a guy with a former best friend.

When exactly did this become a normal, rational action to something of this nature? Perhaps my age is showing here but I really can't recall anything like this happening when I went to school.

If this is what we are "evolving" to then I have to say ...

I WEEP FOR HUMANITY!!!