Michigan State Pizza Party

I wasn’t going to write about this, but I feel this needs to be addressed. As tragic as the shooting was, the worst response is to coddle people and have a pizza party as we talk out our feelings. What is going on?

Michigan State University was enabling students and adults to feel vulnerable and as helpless victims. The answer is not to coddle and tell people they have the right to feel threatened. These types of actions condition people into being mentally weak and cowering in fear over anything and everything. Where is the mental strength at? It is nowhere because we have to make everyone feel like victims.

I’ve been in traumatic and tragic events. I’ve had relatives in such events as well. We never had to cower in fear over the event. Now, don’t misunderstand the fact that those directly involved such as a real victim such as someone who was shot may need assistance in some manner. The rest of the people have been enabled by faulty psychology and ideology. Yet, having food or whatever else to talk through things isn’t solving problems but creating and reinforcing future problems with people. How can we justify a person living in another town who has now barricaded themselves in their apartment simply due to the fact they attend the university? This action is beyond normal, but our society has encouraged this action.

Tragedy is all around us from automobile fatalities, to suicides, to domestic assaults, to sudden deaths due to health issues. This is normal as much as we don’t want it to be. Instead of enabling a mental weakness we need to strengthen the person, make them stronger during events like this. If we cannot deal with this then we are not fit to live a normal and healthy life on this planet. Every day we wake up we are at risk of being involved in an event or just dying. It doesn’t matter if it should not happen. It happens. My relative shouldn’t have died in an accident, but it happened. That person over there should not have committed suicide, but it happens. My relative should never had been murdered, but that is what happens. I don’t like any of this but understand there is a price with life. We all must accept the fact that violence whether by another human or an inanimate object does happen everyday and death sometimes evolves from it. Once we can accept it we can move forward with living instead of hiding in fear because the bogeyman is out there.

I know this will be an unpopular post but it needs to be said and people need to think about it. You need to fight the conditioning that is going on that will hinder your ability to exist during your life. If you’re stuck with fear then you’re not happy and no matter how safe you think you are you’ll will still be controlled by the fear that others place upon you. For Michigan State, it wasn’t the shooter so much as those who enable your fears to control you. Being callous isn’t the solution but neither is coddling people. We all fall off from our bicycles but we must get back on and continue even if we will fall again in the future.