It's been a violent week for teens.

School shootings.

Pedophillia.

Hate.

I look around me now and think to myself that in an instant, everything could change.

My friend could be taken away from us together, either in her mothers car, or laying in a pool of her own blood.

My boyfriend could be the victim of unspeakable acts against his innocence.

I could be shot tomorrow. Next week.

Everything I know could be demolished today, tomorrow, an hour from now, three years from now.

Why must people be so violent? Why must people do this to others? Why must we fear to walk down the halls and look at the wrong person, why must we fear to make friends, because they might be taken from us? Why must children and teens and adults and seniors and blacks and whites and asians and latinos and gays and lesbians and transgenders and disabled and dyslexics and democrats and republicans be afraid?

Why?

Why do teens have to put up with this? Why do we? Why do we live in fear of our future being destroyed? Why do people do weird stuff to us? Why do people tell us how to live? Why do people tell us what to do with our bodies?

Why?

Why is it that so much violence and hate and rage runs free through our schools, our families, and our circles of friends?

Why?

Can you answer me that, the eternal question of love VS. hate, peace VS. rage, friendship VS. racism?

I just want it all to stop. So that me and the rest of my friends can enjoy our last few years together in school.

Please.

I'm really dismayed at the shootings. WTF is going on? Raping and shooting young school girls? Congressmen preying on young boys? The Catholic church covering up child rape? The military using sexual degradation as a tactic on POW's/detainees. I'm sick of the old preying on the young and vulnerable. I'm sick of domineering nations preying on weak nations. I'm sick of dominant, power-mad assholes using bombs, guns, war and economical intimidation as a means of forcing and projecting their tiny dicks and unimaginitive little minds on the world.