Bad Year!

It has been an especially bad year for our town of Butler. Parents in each of our elementary schools have passed away, a student in the middle school was taken advantage of and abused by “friends”, the husband of a beloved teacher suddenly passed away, a stabbing at the local dunkin donuts, armed robbery in a bank just down the street, a neighbor commits suicide…the list goes on.

“But that kind of stuff happens everywhere, Jenn!”

Really….really????

I am so tired of hearing "these things happen everywhere"! Yes they do happen everywhere, but how does that make it ok? How does that make it any less tragic? When did we as a community become so apathetic to the troubles of those around us? When did we stop wanting to change things and make things better for the people in our town? When did we decide to just sit back and accept it as "happening everywhere" and dismiss it as part of how life should be?

You know what I hear when I hear “it happens everywhere”?

I hear: “it didn’t happen to me, so it doesn’t matter”!