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I am sick and tired

DepressedRecluse
DepressedRecluse
of all this discussion about the Boston Bombing...and now this moment of silence in Boston...I'm tired of all the accusations and the media trying to explain what happened and then all the praise for the death of the older bomber and capture of the younger bomber...

I'm sorry...I just can't seem to get upset over these bad things happening in our country and around the world....

I just don't have any feelings for anything...it's like I don't care...when the shooting in CT happened...I felt a little bad but only for a very little bit of time...

I don't know ... I just don't have feelings for anything...
DepressedRecluse
DepressedRecluse
see...I told y'all I suck...

I don't care about anything or anyone...not even myself....

....yet I have no desire to hurt myself or anyone else, and I certainly don't want to die...

I feel like I died a long time ago...I've been dead for about a year now...
deleted_user
deleted_user
I've stopped listening/watching the news for the same reason. All they do is reinforce the negative events that happen in the world and make you feel powerless to do anything about it. I think of it as a form of mind control now. So I don't need the news to tell me what is important and how I should feel about situations that usually have no direct effect on me. Instead, I'd rather focus my attention on the people and events closer to me.
koolman
koolman
I'm sick and tired of it too. Nothing wrong with not having any feelings about it one way or the other. Bad things happen. It seems to be a part of life. I think we all see and hear about so much of it that we're all, rightly, getting desensitized to it. It's like all this violence is toughening us up somehow, for more violence in the years to come. Survival instinct, I suppose.

If a bomb goes off in my vicinity, if all my limbs are intact, I'll be one of the first to race in and help the victims, I think. Until then, I'm not worried about it.