feeling

From reading the various blogs, it is obvious to see how shocked, saddened and angry Trinidadian citizens were at the loss of one of their own. So much potential, now gone. And for what?

Crime and safety are always issues, everywhere. But when crime and safety concern small children, the pain gets magnified.

The thing that sets this region apart from a lot of other areas of the world is that this sort of thing is not yet common enough that we don't mourn, that we don't feel, when it does happen.

The day that we accept this sort of thing as common-place, then we know that we have lost something precious.

We should be angry, absolutely. We should press our governments for action. Maybe not everyone wore black, maybe not enough people turned on their headlights, but that shouldn't stop us. We can keep on pushing, keep on demanding for change.

We can't stop feeling, because that means that the monsters have won.