Monday, April 20, 2009

Keep Columbine in your Thoughts Today.

Ten years ago today a tragedy befell Columbine High School. Two students went on a rampage and killed 12 students and one teacher. We all morn along with the families that have had to deal with the loss of their loved one and also those who tried to figure out why these two boys did such a thing.

Were they ostracised because they were different, were they bullied, were they depressed. What ever the reason for what they did, they changed High School life across the country. Security, Counseling and more have all been added to schools to try to change the atmosphere that causes these things to happen.

Oprah Winfrey cancelled her show today because after looking at it she felt it centered to much on the shooters instead of the victims.

Celebrate the students that survived and where they have gone today. Celebrate their families, their accomplishments, their children and more.

Celebrate the braveness that the families of those who died have showed.

The parents that started a scholarship program in their daughter's name and went to the graduation of one of those students.

The step-daughter of the teacher that gave his life saving so many of the kids, her daughter now attends Columbine. She is not afraid to go to school there.

So much love and community love came out of the tragedy. Keep the Columbine community in your thoughts today.

There should be a lesson to all communities that maybe you should not wait for the tragedies to happen, Spread the Love Now and maybe they will not happen.

Listen to your children and pay attention to what they are saying (and what they may not be saying out loud but in the way they are saying things)

We have become so involved with working, stressing out over everything, that we are losing ourselves and our families.

The computer should be used as a tool to help our lives but not as a babysitter, friend, and sole contact with reality for our children. Computers are not real people!

We are the real people!

Stop and talk to your children, your neighbors, family, and friends. Say hello to perfect strangers and maybe they will say hello back.

Smile, as they say, it is the best medicine. Pass it on!! One good turn does bring another! These may seem like just old sayings but they became "old sayings" because they were found to be truths.

Pass these actions down to our children and they will pass them on to their friend.
Imagine if everyone just did one good turn, just imagine.

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