I don’t think there’s a person in our country who hasn’t heard about the Boston Marathon disaster today, but if you haven’t….

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The story has been updating with more and more injured since it happened. It makes me sick.

It makes me mad.

It makes me mad as hell. A friend sent this to me to help calm me down…

Just go watch it. It will make you smile despite all the craziness in the world. And it will comfort you to know that even in the 70s, there were people recognizing the problems in the world.

So what do we do when we’re faced with something so horrific that will affect people on a global scale? I say global because people from countries all over the world come to Boston every year for this race. What can we do? Anything we want. Unfortunately, I have always found myself looking into the epicenter of the destruction, finding evidence of loss and grief. Then I saw something that just…made me look at every video differently.

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I then watched the worst video I had seen yet with this quote in mind. I will be telling my kids this EVERY time they see something tragic. No parent can keep grief and horror from their kids. The news is everywhere. People always talk. What we CAN do, is teach them to look for the hope in a hopeless situation.

The only thing I have left to say, is that I truly hope our country will soon stop trying to fix a non issue. We don’t have a gun control issue. We don’t have a bomb issue. I can tell you why:

Not once will you ever hear it reported that Mr. Jones Perfect was of sound mind and body his entire life, never making a mistake and always the life of every event, went and blew up a marathon or shot up a school. It doesn’t happen.

What you will quite often hear is that a tragedy struck and, upon investigation and location of the culprit, it was found that responsible party has had a life long history of mental illness.

We need to stop ignoring mental illness in our country. We need to stop treating it with kid gloves. We need to stop letting mentally ill people who have shown improvement be left to their own devices. If a schizophrenic takes their meds and the voice go away, they logically think they’re cured. The second they stop taking the meds and voices return, they are no longer in enough control of their body to get back on the meds.

I don’t have the solution. Not one that anyone would like, anyway. But I see the problem. It’s a huge problem. Our country needs help. Our world needs help. We all need humanity.