Saw horrible incident today; emotions are raw. [View All]

A woman was with her 3 or 4 year-old boy. He was being fussy as she tried to bring him through some revolving doors. She yanked on his arm, hurting him. He started to cry, and she screamed at him, “You fucking asshole! I’m so sick of you.”

I’ve seen this kind of thing before, and it’s always upsetting. Sometimes I do confront the parent, due to limited impulse control.

This time I actually burst into tears, I looked at her and said “That was HORRIBLE!”

She looked kind of shocked and I just walked away.

I thought of this again because I was just looking at pictures of orphaned Iraqi children in GD. Children just need to be loved, and so many go without. If they have loving parents, we kill them. If their parents are relatively safe in this land of privilege, they are unworthy, immature, and incompetent.

My emotions are just right on the edge. How can we just witness these things and go about our days? I don’t know what to do.