The Mental Youngs

Hi again! Recently, there has been a sensational news which shook the entire world, a South Korean murdered 32 people with his guns and later committed suicide in a university in America. The effects are devastating, innocent lives are lost and it brought about many harmful chain effects to the community living there and around America. Students were afraid to attend school for fear of facing the same situation, parents are paranoid when sending their children to school.

In this entry, I shall discuss on the signs of a mental child. The South Korean man was clearly not in his right state of mind to take the lives of people. There was evidence since the past few years and yet people surrounding him ignored it and some continue to alienate him, resulting his problems to snowball into the recent event. This is a good wake up call to schools and communities around the world to take action and improvise to help these mental students.

Furthermore, I also feel that he, along with those he killed, is a victim. He has suffered so much pain and agony and yet nobody is around to understand his problems and lend a shoulder for support. What happened is partly because of the influence of the surroundings on him, examples are the class he is in, the school he is in etc. From what I have read, I know that he is much isolated in his school and many people dislike him. This is also partially their fault, how could they treat him unequally and show him disrespect like any other human beings? Is this fair to him? Would they be responsible if he one day has his revenge on them? Of course a normal human being would feel infuriated and want to get back on those people. Therefore I feel that they are partially responsible.

However, I feel that he is responsible for his own plight too. He did not want to seek help from the school councilors and teachers and kept everything to himself. He thought that no one was there for him but he did not know that his teachers were very much willing to help. If he has turned to help, this situation will cease to exist.

Sadly, whats done cannot be undone. What we can do now is to learn from the past mistakes and correct them so that this would not happen in the future again.