On coming home from church tonight, I was informed by my Grandma that Osama Bin Laden, a man known to the US as very evil, was dead. In the midst of this I was felt very blah, a lack of emotion. The thoughts that went through my head, were; "yay, he's gone," "meh, another victory for our forces." Is it that I trust in our armed forces and their ability to keep us safe, have I been to far removed from the happenings in our world? What is it that causes me to see this great victory for a nation I'm so proud to be a citizen of as just another day in our lives? Or is it the fact that everything is so dramatized? That the minute something "major" happens, it's "big" news. I think that I've become complacent to the emotions drafted by our media, because most of the time the news is over dramatized. It's sad that our world has come to this, that I can watch a tsunami destroy parts of a country, tornadoes tear the south to pieces and a terribly evil man brought to justice and yet feel nothing, because the media in our country is so blown out of proportion that when it's something truely big I just want to turn a deaf ear and walk away. So to the media, could we get the facts and determine our emotional response based on the facts verse the emotions that you try and build up in our minds. So that when I hear of something tragic or amazing, I can feel the emotion I'm supposed to feel and not feel this numbness put up as a defense to the show that our media has become.
So in response to Osama Bin Laden being brought to justice. God bless our troops, who put their lives on the line in selfless ways on a daily basis, and God bless America! Let's not forget the God this country serves and the foundations it was built on.
