In the age of Twitter and FB, what weighs heavily with me, besides the obvious (the sharing of misinformation, the inappropriate comments, the extreme graphic nature of the photos, etc) is that these victims fall "off" the timeline in just a matter of days. By this weekend, there won't be much mention of the incident unless they find the guy who did this. Sad to me. That these lives are changed forever and yet they don't even exists on a timeline for more than a couple of days.
You started something. I've decided that tomorrow I am going to do my part to honor those who couldn't finish the race. I'm not a runner, but tomorrow I am going to run like marathon runner. Thanks for the inspiration.
I want a kinder world too, Jenn. These things are beyond comprehension by rational minds. What to make of this world of ours?
I didn't write a post about Marathon Day, but I'm glad you and others did. Keep on running!
So many things in this post that I want to respond to, but the thing that really jumped out at me that I didn't see in any other posts, but which I definitely felt similarly about was the part about the Saudi national who was held for questioning. Like you, I felt especially ill when I read about this, mostly because from the sounds of what was reported, it didn't seem as though it was even clear whether this was a domestic or foreign act of terrorism, and from what I read it sounded like this man was a suspect simply because of his country of origin, not for anything more tangible than that. Also, one report I read suggested that he had actually been running the marathon and was even injured in the blast! It's hard to think of how something as tragic as this whole thing could get any more ugly, and yet, there it is.