I just had to post my feelings here because they need to be out there. I live in Aurora, CO and Century 16 was a movie theater I had visited a few times. My younger siblings visited it a lot more as it was a big movie theater with cheap tickets. I woke up Friday morning at about 5 AM to my step mom walking in, talking on the phone. I just thought she was checking on me and my sisters, so I went back to sleep. It was only when she came back in about 20 minutes later, that I woke up and walked out to the living room as she told me that someone had opened fire on a packed movie theater and that the theater was one only a few minutes drive away. I sat in shock as I listened to the news, everything slowly unfolding. It wasn’t real to me, and I didn’t really have any strong emotion towards the situation. It was only as the weekend went on that I really started to feel hurt and shocked and scared. This was hitting close to home, as I found out some of the people I knew from church as well as through a mutual friend happened to be at the theater that night. People I had sat and had talks with were there, in theater 8 as they were lucky enough to get tickets even after they had been told it was sold out. It hit home even harder for me as I watched the news and heard the names of streets I had traveled on with no second thought. This was my first major catastrophe of my adult life. Yes, I lived through 9/11 but that was across the country. Even as I write this, the news is on in the background and another bad event is taking place. I heard a radio personality said something that has struck true to me in the last few days. You get to an age where you’re just passing time between tragedies. I think this is so true as I grow older and no longer am an innocent child, only seeing what my parents want to see. I have to be strong and get out there the strength my community is starting to build as we work to come back together.
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If you are fucking lying this would be a sick joke.
