Sunshine State Of Mind

As I’m watching this video of a 16 year old named, Derrion Albert, get beat to death by his peers with their fists, wooden planks and feet, makes me so upset. This unfortunate happening took place 3 blocks away from a Chicago, Illinois high school. I can’t relate to being terrified of what is going to happen if I walk around my neighborhood. I don’t fear everyday like it’s my last. I don’t know how it feels to lose people in my life at such a quick rate. When cases like these are displayed upon the world, it’s so hard for me to face because I can only do so much. I wish I could hug every struggling person out there and let them know the world is more than money, hate or conformity. These kids lack love. These kids lack faith in life. As a human being it’s hard for me to face the fact that people live like this daily and I am being ungrateful for my own life. Like I said I don’t know how it is to struggle, but I know how it feels to hurt. 

I know cases like this happen everyday and this footage is just a taste of the truth, but it had to be shown. Any evidence of something as tragic as this needs to be shown. If the country or world see it, then the likely hood of someone helping out or trying to make a small difference in anyone’s life, still makes a difference. 

I truthfully started to shed tears watching this video. It’s not only the fact that Derrion, a student, a brother, a son of a mother, is brutally beaten to the floor, but the fact that this is real. This is what happens everyday. Violence and hatred happens everyday and that was the most heartbreaking thing to me. I really wish I could stop gang violence and innocent deaths, but at the end of the day that’s life. We can’t ever go back in time nor can we eliminate violence with a snap of our fingers, but we can be helpful and smarter with our lives. We can try to be as positive as can be, if not for ourselves, then for the next generation.