Defining moments...
Is it just me or does everyone wonder how the students of Virginia Tech will ever recover from the events of this week?
Staring into the face of a killer, watching your 76 year old professor sacrifice his life, taking bullets in exchange for precious seconds, just so you can escape out a window.
33 of your own, gunned down by one of your own.
The absolute loss of innocence for 26 thousand students.
It made me think about tragedies which shape your life. I thought about mine. When I was about 12, a young girl was stolen from her high school in the town of Collie about four hours away from my tiny town. A yellow panel van was seen at the school, just before the girl disappeared. Even in my town we were told to be on the lookout for a yellow panel van lurking around the school. I was terrified, we all were.
I guess the disappearance of Daniel Morcombe is a defining tragedy for thousands of kids on the Sunshine Coast.
My Mum says the shooting of JFK changed the way a lot of people saw the world.
If you Google the term defining tragedy, you'll find all sorts.
I guess it comes as no surprise that September 11 is the defining tragedy for most people in the western world. The event that changed the way we think.
The Holocaust was the defining tragedy of the 20th Century.The potato famine was the defining tragedy of Ireland.
For a lot of people, their defining tragedy could simply be their parents divorce.
We all have one, a thing that changed forever, the way they view the world.
The neat trick, is to learn from it. To think about why it happened and see what we can change to make sure it never happens again.
Staring into the face of a killer, watching your 76 year old professor sacrifice his life, taking bullets in exchange for precious seconds, just so you can escape out a window.
33 of your own, gunned down by one of your own.
The absolute loss of innocence for 26 thousand students.
It made me think about tragedies which shape your life. I thought about mine. When I was about 12, a young girl was stolen from her high school in the town of Collie about four hours away from my tiny town. A yellow panel van was seen at the school, just before the girl disappeared. Even in my town we were told to be on the lookout for a yellow panel van lurking around the school. I was terrified, we all were.
I guess the disappearance of Daniel Morcombe is a defining tragedy for thousands of kids on the Sunshine Coast.
My Mum says the shooting of JFK changed the way a lot of people saw the world.
If you Google the term defining tragedy, you'll find all sorts.
I guess it comes as no surprise that September 11 is the defining tragedy for most people in the western world. The event that changed the way we think.
The Holocaust was the defining tragedy of the 20th Century.The potato famine was the defining tragedy of Ireland.
For a lot of people, their defining tragedy could simply be their parents divorce.
We all have one, a thing that changed forever, the way they view the world.
The neat trick, is to learn from it. To think about why it happened and see what we can change to make sure it never happens again.
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