fear like a puppeteer

I've noticed lately, that people are capable of horrible things. And thought we all know they are horrible, we can all still wrap our minds around it and move on with our lives. We are capable of understanding how horrible the world can be and still, we can find a way to push it out and be happy. Out of sight out of mind. We understand how certain people can be. Those who manipulate, torture, rape, steal, kill all make mistakes. And the world moves on. People move on. We have the ability to show compassion, and yet even after someone demands silence for a friend he killed in a car accident, people can still move themselves to clap anyway. It's shocking how death and horror can just flash through one's life time and be on the news and in the papers, and still... we all find reason to keep going. Most of us, are optimists in that way. Either that, or it is the "it's not happening to me" attitude.

Or I suppose this is just me and my ignorance. The fact that I can move on because these things are not happening to me may just be the reason why so many of us are similar. We have no experience dealing with that kind of tragedy.