I read with disgust

I read the news of the past few days with disgust. Rape, murder and bombings. I mean, where the hell are we in the evolution of human beings? Nothing makes sense anymore. How can an innocent girl of 25 who has done no harm to anyone, be taken away during a usual jogging routine, raped and murdered just like that? Wait, wait. Disgust is not the word. Rage is more like it. I can't even put the emotion into words, and that does not happen much with me.

Worse still, my ex-room mate knows the poor girl.

I received a text message last night from my ex-roommate whom I had not contacted for quite awhile except through short messages of 'how do you do' and the likes. She told me her ex-schoolmate was raped and murdered on Saturday the 14th of January. She told me to take care of myself and to be careful wherever I am. She told me all that, and I shivered myself to sleep.

I didn't really get much sleep last night. I did, however, log on to check the news report about the incident. Words could not express how I feel and I am sure my friend would have felt worse, a lot of times over. She is an emotional type, the kind of person who would cry upon seeing survivors of the tsunami that ravaged Sri Lanka two christmases ago. How do you think will she take losing a friend so suddenly and so brutally?

All I can say is I hope when they get that bastard, they beat the crap out of him. I hope that they put him in jail where security is maximum. Not to save him from the people outside, but to keep him from getting away from the other people inside the Max-secu prison. I don't hope that he will repent. No one can repent from something so horrible, no one should be allowed to repent for something like this. I hope he will be able to feel the terror that he put upon the girl right before he took her life away.

Yet, what can I do except hope?

Why am I so uptight about this? Why should I put so much emotion into an incident that is so remotely related to me? Just this afternoon, I received another text message, this time from my sister who told me that a shopping mall in the town I went to university in, and where she is attending university now, was bombed two nights ago. It was a pipe bomb, containing nails and so amateurishly-done, it boggles the minds of people who tries to figure out why such a devastating weapon is made and why was it used. My sister was in the vicinity when it occurred. She wasn't hurt. She did, however, see the forensics team working in the scene of the crime. She could so easily be involved in the incident. She could have easily been the one casualty that was lost due to the bomb blast. SHe could have easily been dead now, like the girl who went jogging on a Saturday.

All I can say is I am glad she is not hurt from the incident and I am mad because someone out there is so stupid to as to make a pipe bomb and detonate it in public where other people are going about their daily lives. What the hell is wrong with these people? Can anyone tell me what the hell goes on in the minds of these lunatics? These barbarians? These animals? These imbeciles?