It’s been a long day, you just want to get home, sit on your couch and watch the 5 o’clock news. You press the ON button on your remote to see that there has been a mass shooting at a country festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The news anchor announces that 58 people are dead and there are 546 injured and in critical care. The sad thing is that you are not surprised because another mass shooting had taken place a few months prior in Orlando, FL at a gay nightclub. You think to yourself, why must the Earth be so cruel?
Sometimes the Earth is cruel, there is no denying that. It can be cruel in many ways, natural disasters, mass shootings, or even just creating bad weather causing someone to have a bad day. In many cases, the Earth takes human’s lives away and creates mass destruction for itself.
The mass shooting in Las Vegas really set the US in a whirl. We, as Americans, really opened our eyes to see that the Earth is very good at being cruel, especially to those who don’t deserve it. When faced with adversity in this world, the United States has a way of coming together to support the disasters the Earth creates for us. We cannot control how the Earth acts towards us, but we can control how we act towards it.
I couldn’t believe that another shooting had occurred. It saddens me, hearing stories of those who had lost loved ones from this fatal occurrence. When you see civilians, on the TV, sadness in their eyes, it just makes you as a person think, “what if that was me?”. What if one of my loved ones had gone to Vegas for the weekend to enjoy some country music and they never came back because some insane human-being decided that he was going to shoot hundreds of people? My heart aches to just think about it, and not just thinking about losing one of my loved ones but thinking about the people who have to live through the rest of their lives without their significant other or their own mother. This world saddens me and makes me second guess everything I do, whether it’s going on an airplane or just going to the movies. You never know what could happen.
When the Earth decides to create harm upon us, we must take it head on and work our way through it, as a country, as a whole. 1,000 people is better than one person against the World.
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I agree that we should work together to make the world a better place for all. When I went to Puerto Rico I realized the struggle that people go through after natural disasters and if we just all work together we can make this world a much better place.