A New Direction

I haven't written in a very long time. No more stories. I also decided I was out of clever titles. So I'm sticking with this blog.

I saw a sort of special interest story on Sportscenter today, it outlined the events of the murder of Ray Caruth, a football star, and the murder of his girlfriend. A gunman was hired to shoot the woman who was, at the time, eight months pregnant. The child was born, but with Cerebral Palsy, and in the third grade is just managing to walk 200 steps without any help, and may soon climb a flight of stairs.
The gunman is sentenced to some fifty years in prison, and during this time he has converted to the Islamic faith, and sought forgiveness from the grandmother who cares for the child, Chancellor. She granted him this forgiveness. Yet when asked what he would do if he saw Ray Caruth, who he claims involved him in this mess, he said that he would kill him.

I also saw, on Sportscenter, a NASCAR crash. This was no ordinary crash-the two drivers had bad blood. One, in fact, sent the other flying in an earlier race and it nearly killed members of the crowd, who to the best of my knowledge, were not involved in their feud.

All of this made me wonder if people stop at nothing for revenge. Where is the line drawn? A man converts to a peaceful religion and seeks forgiveness for the suffering he has caused, yet he wishes to kill someone. Two well paid stock car drivers do not even stop their fighting when their disagreements almost kill bystanders.

I hope Sportscenter did not, all of a sudden, develop a conscience and tried to illustrate a point. I'm hoping for coincidence.