boston

is there ever really a way to explain terror or tragedy? there never seems to be a shortage of situations like columbine, the oklahoma city bombings, 9/11, the virginia tech shootings, and in this particular instance, the boston bombings. time will eventually tell the "who," "what," "when," and "where" for every aspect of this disaster, but i find it hard to believe that anyone, especially myself, will ever be able to explain the "why." the one thing i cling to when i see madness like this, is that there is hope for mankind. 

a blogger that i follow, jenni, shard the quote below. sometimes, someone else just says exactly what you can not figure out how to say. 

patton oswalt nailed it. 

"Boston. Fucking horrible. 

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.'

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths. 

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness. 

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago. 

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'"

-patton oswalt