Last week's Friday was one to forget.
Before going to work on Friday morning, I heard the news on the radio about what had happened in Arizona. I felt upset and frustrated at the fact that injustices continue happening from all angles of society, and nothing is being done to stop more human abuse from occurring.
On my way to work, my friend calls me and asks me for help finding legal advice. As it turns out, he may be in trouble with immigration himself over some mishandled police investigation. Damn, one more thing on my mind and even more frustration with everything that has been happening.
I tried to be reassuring but I know they way things are going, it's really hard staying hopeful and optimistic all the time.
At around 5pm, Chicago time, I left work. Before walking 15 feet away from the door, I saw three teenage girls jumping another girl, on her way to school to pick up her sisters. As I called them out and came close to the perpetrators, they took off. That poor girl laid on the sidewalk, crying and in obvious shock. I called the police and waited along side that poor girl crying. Details were taken and promises were made, but in the end they seemed more concerned in finding out what the victim had done to deserve it. At this point my frustration was reaching its limits. I tried finding an explanation for those girls' aggressive behavior, among girls none the less, but I just couldn't. I was speechless and numb at the same time. It's one thing to hear these things in the news and another to witness them first hand.
When I got home, later that evening, I talked to my sister over the phone. Before we hung up, she told me her little dog had been ran over by a car. Instead of being empathetic, I reprimanded her for having bought a dog to teach her children about responsibility. After hanging up, I felt terrible thinking I should have listened and be comforting.
If this was some way to challenge my atheist faith, I think I made it. But man does it get hard some days.
Friday, April 23rd, 2010 was a day to forget, indeed.
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