Dear readers friendsa high school of Graz has become the setting of a tragic massacre: Artur A., a young twenty -one, raids in the high school he had attended years earlier, and with a gun and a hunting rifle kills 10 students, and then takes his life himself.
From what emerged so far, it seems that the young man had been Bullying victim in that school. The heinous gesture would therefore be a sort of revenge, of a symbolic “revenge” of evil immediately when he was a pupil in that same school.
The story reflects, as well as for its murderous violence and the “easy” port of arms, for an appearance human and educational that cannot escape us: the unaccompanied fragilitythe unrelated inner woundsThe discomfort left to itselfThe badly immediately without having the opportunity to re -elaborate it And in some way to get out of it, they return and transform into hatred, blind desire for revenge, violence that comes to the murder.
Artur was introverted, he was not on social media, he had abandoned the school, he had started an apprenticeship. Many questions arise: had the boy manifested someone to have been a bullied victim? Had no careful eye captured signs of discomfort?
The story will find its clarifications, but it shows as a failure “Recomposition” inner of a experience of suffering can lead to destructive and self -destructive results.
Where this light of pardonOf reconciliation with one’s own historycan only thrive a experience of suffering, probably exacerbated by the inner fragility of the young age.
A light that instead is in the heartbreaking story of the pediatrician of Gazamother of 10 children, 9 of whom, together with her husband, died under the Israeli bombings.
Lose their children in the world It is perhaps the most incurable pain I exist. Nevertheless Alaa al-Najjarthis is the name of the woman, she says she is not “Arabbata, I feel pain but not anger”. It has relied on Allah, it is sure that everything is part of a “Larger drawing” that escapes us and, says strongly, “I am sad for those people without humanity who accept all this evil”.
He cannot try hatred, he explained, he asked for justice but to God. He did not say the word “forgiveness”, but there is between the lines: it is one light which allows her not to be overwhelmed by evil around her and cultivate a little bit of hope for the future.
The two opposite events question us about how we elaborate evil That threatens our life, which pushes us to cultivate feelings of hatred and revenge. Being undermined by evil is part of our lifeit’s up to us though choose how to deal with it.
Knowing how to read feelings and reactions who live in our hearts, not to be slaves. Knowing how to ask for help if necessary. AND knowing how to entrust God, “Right judge”with faith, which means giving us to do it justice with our hands.
Forgiveness and reconciliation They are perhaps the highest form of custody. I mean working for a better futuremore human for everyonebreaking The chain of evil which recalls more evil.
(Image at the top: Photo Reuters)
