Frankly, I dont feel sympathy towards humans unless I know them personally. We cant go a day without reading about people dying, murdered, killed, shot, stabbed, molested, injured, raped etc
People on tv are just that, images on a screen, numbers, statistics that add up to an amount I can no longer reason with and accept as lost individuals. One, a thousand, one million - there are so many people dying on an hourly basis its beyond comprehension.
I wont even say to a person "I know what you are going through", because I dont. Its a cliche line we end up saying cause we think its what the person wants to hear so they know they arent alone. Maybe Ive been lucky in that I dont know what it feels like, but I wont patronise another by claiming to understand their pain.
Yes, you are right M12 it is a tragedy, but its her tragedy and I dont believe it should involve any member of the random public, its not our business. Why? I simply dont care about anyone I dont personally know, a stranger, a public figure etc, there is nothing I can do to help them and sympathy, bad feelings are as helpful as saying rainbows cure cancer!
Its like when a celeb is diagnosed with cancer, all of a sudden a disease which is already public knowledge, escalates like its just been discovered again. Then we have the obligatory fund raising and I always get to thinking, if a celeb has cancer, why are the public milked for that extra £100,000's when the victim can cough that up like its pocket change.
I probably seem cynnical and uncaring, but I think we each individually have enough on our own plates without the burden of another persons grief. I wouldnt presume to burden the board if I had a problem, who would give a shit if I did? Probably no one and in fairness Id expect that.
