But every child here carries deep and shallow loneliness and sadness.
The blond boy who skipped class was caught by his alcoholic father;
the chattering girls kept complaining about the mother who frequently searched their rooms;
the girl who worked odd jobs in the library was talked about by classmates and felt inferior;
especially The boy who looks weak and bullied, who would have thought that he would become the mastermind of the school shooting...
The campus is sunny, and their youth should be sunny, pure and transparent, but it is occupied by loneliness infinitely. When the sense of loneliness is so inflated that it is about to explode, it is the time when reason collapses and disillusionment. The weak boy finally picked up the gun and shot at the innocent lives around him.
Loneliness is always inevitable, but after all, it needs a kind of strength to lead people to swim through the sea of loneliness. These innocent children have no one to enter their soft hearts, no comfort, no warmth, so they can only suffocate in boundless loneliness.
The essence of life is pure, soft and beautiful. So are their lives. It's just that some cruel external forces cut their hearts mercilessly, and they can repair them once or twice. When the wounds become more and more, they are caught off guard, and the support they desire in their hearts does not come as scheduled, and their expectations turn into despair and ideals. It turns into depravity, and love turns into hate...
So, we can't blame these innocent children. No one gives them strength and warmth, they are weak. Love needs to be maintained and cultivated. When they do not receive love, they naturally cannot give love. Has anyone ever thought about how many days they hid in the corner thinking about the neglect of their parents, the cynicism of teachers and classmates, the forgetting of society, their fragile tears behind others, but cruel and indulgent in front of others, this is because they Facing the huge world, no one can let them place their souls. Facing such a world, they chose revenge and hatred.
At the end of the film, the boy shoots everyone he sees. There is no music or hysterical screaming in the movie when killing people, it's still that suffocating calm and depression, all the lives we've just seen disappear quickly, especially those young lives that should have been brilliant.
I only hope that the society can give every life equal care. Some children are seen as bad and morally corrupt by adults, but no one understands the pain they go through. They should, like everyone else, enjoy their youth and life, and should not be ignored by society and then go to extremes as fate dictates.
I just hope that those children see love and sunshine. The world is not gray, and youth should not be scarred. The heart should be like the ocean, full of ups and downs.
Writing here, I have an idea. Hopefully we can get up close and personal with these children as volunteers. As peers, we bring them sincere encouragement and love to mend their wounds. I have always believed that they have never lost the ability to feel love. Just like the boy who killed in the play, he kept playing "Dedicated to Alice". The jumping notes in the sun tell us that his heart is still soft. All we have to do is wake up their sleeping hearts, the hearts of innocent children who should be just like us.
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