“I suspect that most if not all the people we have thought of as evil…I suspect that there has been some extreme malfunction going on in their brains, that is what I believe.” Writers Voices talks with Sue Klebold on her book – A Mother’s Reckoning – Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, Sue is the mother of Dylan Klebold one of the two shooters at Columbine High school in 1999. “I always believed that love had protective factors. That if you loved somebody deeply enough…you would know what they were thinking….There is a hidden world that goes on before our eyes sometimes and we don’t know it…When someone is suffering deeply they are in their own universe.”
People that we knew were suddenly beginning to disclose to their family members things that has happened to them when they were little, that their parents had no idea about… We weren’t the only ones who hadn’t seen something that was in front of our faces.
I would like to urge everyone today to practice empathy. Just to see how it feels – For the next twenty-four hours, refrain from criticizing anybody or anything.
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