There are some who would say that time heals all wounds. I'm not sure healing is ever attained when one loses a child, a friend, or a lover to a senseless act like the recent Boston Marathon bombings or the grievous sadness of 911, but time can lend a certain numbness to great losses or pain.
As we get caught up in the continuous coverage of the recent events in Boston, we must be vigilant in keeping our perspectives intact. With each news update, interview, or photograph we are apt to let our emotions boil up, anger us, seek revenge.
There are many who believe that giving that type of energy to such events makes their likelihood of recurrence stronger, while it makes us weaker. Revenge is the mask of fear, and fear is the weakening of the human spirit.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze too long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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