abandonment

I am still very much distressed by the shooting in the PA gym (see the post on CNN's web site). How horrible it is for the lives to be lost so senselessly.

What got my attention, though, was the following graph in the quoted article:

"In the note found at the scene in Sodini's gym bag, he complains he had never spent a weekend with a woman, never vacationed with a woman and never lived with a woman, and that he had had limited sexual experiences, Moffatt said."

Later in the article it said how Sodini felt abandoned by the world. What a horrible state of mind that was. How was it possible that no one noticed it? And if someone did, how is it possible that no one helped out? He was apparently a church-goer yet nothing came from that direction for him either, evidently.

As a result of a man feeling so rejected and abandoned, so many other lives were so adversely affected. While nothing can remove the responsibility for this terrible act of violence from him and him alone, I can understand how easy it is for a person in this culture to feel rejected and abandoned. Luckily not everyone who feels that way resolves it the way this sorry man did.

I do feel for the families and friends of those who so tragically lost their lives in this, yet another, act of senseless violence. My heart goes to you and would have gone to Sordini had I known him before he ended it all so tragically.