Last night a convenient store was robbed and a customer was shot while trying to stop the burglary.
The customer was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. When I got off work last night, I drove past the store on my way home, there was police tape up around the store. Police cars blocking it off, a man setting a tripod to either take pictures for the local paper or an online news site. Everyone is on red alert, the shooter had ran off and hadn't been found yet. People locking their doors. I slept with the dogs which probably explains my tiredness and foul mood today.
This morning I drive by the store on my way to work and it is as if nothing had ever happened. No news on the shooter or the victim, he may be dead. I am in awe of how such a life changing event can take place and nothing really changes except for the handful of people involved.
It makes you realize how small you really are in the scheme of things.
At this exact moment someone is taking their first breath, someone is taking their last. Someone is falling in love and someone is having their heart broken.
I remember thinking just the same way when my father died. I wondered how my world could be coming to an end while the rest of the world just kept moving on as usual.
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